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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17953)	12/5/2007 5:10:00 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 36917

Yeah, it is pretty amazing to see how much nice Ag goes on today in the ME and N. Africa, as the result of tapping deep aquifers throughout the region. Circle pivot ag land in Saudi Arabia or the Sahara? Who would have thought that was possible in 1977? Of course, not sustainable is it?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17953)	8/15/2008 1:49:17 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

This writer makes your point, Gus: Green genes - The shameful destruction of a crop trial economist.com "Greenpeace, however, remains firm in its opposition. It believes the ISAAA report is misleading and contends that GM crops contribute to the problem of world hunger by increasing farmers’ dependence on the companies that supply the seeds. “GMO crops extend all the worst practices of industrial agriculture,” contends Daniel Ocampo a Greenpeace campaigner. He adds that the ISAAA report “lacks scientific evidence to support its claims that GMO crops are safe and effective”. Oh, what an irony. Greenpeace wants more scientific evidence, while activists that may have been inspired by its crop-trashing efforts ten years ago are busy destroying trials that would provide it. Scientists at Leeds University had been hoping to test the effectiveness and environmental impact of a new type of potato that was resistant to cyst nematode worms. These worms cost farmers more than £60 billion ($119 billion), and can damage important crops such as bananas, which form up to 25% of the diet of many African countries."