Comments on: GMO Africa ยป GMOs and organics can alleviate food crises http://robertshepherd.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/gmo-africa-%c2%bb-gmos-and-organics-can-alleviate-food-crises/ Science, photography, wine and the wilds.. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:24:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: James http://robertshepherd.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/gmo-africa-%c2%bb-gmos-and-organics-can-alleviate-food-crises/#comment-51 James Wed, 07 May 2008 19:09:56 +0000 http://robertshepherd.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-51 Thanks Robert for "amplifying" my blog post. We need to adopt the position that there is no silver bullet to the current food crisis. We need a combination of strategies to enhance food sustainability. We need organic farming, gene splicing and crop genetic engineering. Those who want to do crop genetic engineering should be allowed to do so without inhibitions. On the other hand organic farmers ought to be given a room to do their own farming. We should not try to goad them to do this or that. Let's not have a situation where people or a organizations are telling farmers to avoid a particular mode of farming like plague. Currently, we have organizations such as the Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace telling farmers to avoid genetically modified foods. This is unfair. Nowhere I have heard biotech corporations advising farmers against planting organic crops. All what they do is to market their products and then leave farmers to make their own decisions. By the way Roberts, I will add your blog to my blogroll. Please do the same for me. And drop me a line in case you have any question. Thanks Robert for “amplifying” my blog post. We need to adopt the position that there is no silver bullet to the current food crisis. We need a combination of strategies to enhance food sustainability. We need organic farming, gene splicing and crop genetic engineering. Those who want to do crop genetic engineering should be allowed to do so without inhibitions. On the other hand organic farmers ought to be given a room to do their own farming. We should not try to goad them to do this or that. Let’s not have a situation where people or a organizations are telling farmers to avoid a particular mode of farming like plague. Currently, we have organizations such as the Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace telling farmers to avoid genetically modified foods. This is unfair. Nowhere I have heard biotech corporations advising farmers against planting organic crops. All what they do is to market their products and then leave farmers to make their own decisions.

By the way Roberts, I will add your blog to my blogroll. Please do the same for me. And drop me a line in case you have any question.

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