Re: Modified Superspud
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:56 pm
Well said Parsons Jack!
We in Europe do live a life of luxury with boundless food at our fingertips. We have those who have been against GM from the start because they see it as a threat to the way they think the world should continue. They will invent problems rather than help when it comes to GM and as one set of thought-up problems are answered and GM appears to be being more acceptable these people not only bring the answered questions back with further scare stories they invent further scare stories and wrap them up as fact. This is all in the name of Organics!
GM has been described as out of date technology by the Soil Association.
It is said not to be living up to what it promised. It is the very people saying this who are responsible for it not reaching the stage it might have had they not trashed most of the necessary field trials. This again is in the name of Organics!
When I started gardening organic meant anything based on carbon and then 'Organics' sprung up and The Henry Doubleday Research Association
under the Founder and Leader Lawrence Hills. HDRA was wonderful and happy until Lawrence retired then it has gone down hill from that point.
Lawrence was not hell bell on making masses of money and those that followed wanted to make a mint. Herein lies the problems with the HDRA call it what you will!
The Soil Association in those days were viewed as a bunch of cranks
and I personally still hold that view. They talked their way into being the supposed number one organic organization in the land but in truth are nothing more than a trading company. Their comments on GM are made out of fear for their existence because they know that should GM be widely accepted their days of fame will wither and die. They will continue to stand in the way of scientific advance out of sheer dogma.
With Organic Farming The Soil Association is moving backwards and not forwards as it should be moving. Science is being lost because of them.
It is time that all these petty scare stories involving GM were laid to rest and the only way that can be done is through research and more research!
You can invent an objection to GM in a matter of seconds and this is what is happening and this can only thrive on Chinese Whispers and again this is what is happening.
If these whisperers were to actually sit back and do a little research for themselves the whispering would soon stop and the country would benefit instead of all this persistent bickering.
I have decided that I am getting too old to care any longer and as from today I shall be taking a rest, initially for a months trial, and I will go to read only and take no further part in any discussion.
JB
We in Europe do live a life of luxury with boundless food at our fingertips. We have those who have been against GM from the start because they see it as a threat to the way they think the world should continue. They will invent problems rather than help when it comes to GM and as one set of thought-up problems are answered and GM appears to be being more acceptable these people not only bring the answered questions back with further scare stories they invent further scare stories and wrap them up as fact. This is all in the name of Organics!
GM has been described as out of date technology by the Soil Association.
It is said not to be living up to what it promised. It is the very people saying this who are responsible for it not reaching the stage it might have had they not trashed most of the necessary field trials. This again is in the name of Organics!
When I started gardening organic meant anything based on carbon and then 'Organics' sprung up and The Henry Doubleday Research Association
under the Founder and Leader Lawrence Hills. HDRA was wonderful and happy until Lawrence retired then it has gone down hill from that point.
Lawrence was not hell bell on making masses of money and those that followed wanted to make a mint. Herein lies the problems with the HDRA call it what you will!
The Soil Association in those days were viewed as a bunch of cranks
and I personally still hold that view. They talked their way into being the supposed number one organic organization in the land but in truth are nothing more than a trading company. Their comments on GM are made out of fear for their existence because they know that should GM be widely accepted their days of fame will wither and die. They will continue to stand in the way of scientific advance out of sheer dogma.
With Organic Farming The Soil Association is moving backwards and not forwards as it should be moving. Science is being lost because of them.
It is time that all these petty scare stories involving GM were laid to rest and the only way that can be done is through research and more research!
You can invent an objection to GM in a matter of seconds and this is what is happening and this can only thrive on Chinese Whispers and again this is what is happening.
If these whisperers were to actually sit back and do a little research for themselves the whispering would soon stop and the country would benefit instead of all this persistent bickering.
I have decided that I am getting too old to care any longer and as from today I shall be taking a rest, initially for a months trial, and I will go to read only and take no further part in any discussion.
JB