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2009-05-18 | permalink
New report undermines Vatican meeting on GE crops
On the eve of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences’ ”Study Week” on genetically modified food, a new report from GM Freeze shows why GM won’t, and can’t, deliver on its promises. [...] The biotech industry now hopes to boost their market with ”nutritionally enhanced” GM crops, which it claims will alleviate malnutrition and improve health. Yet after over a decade of such promises, no nutritionally enhanced crops are commercially available, while better approaches to health and nutrition are cheaper and ready to use.
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2009-05-18 | permalink
New report undermines Vatican meeting on GE crops
On the eve of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences’ ”Study Week” on genetically modified food, a new report from GM Freeze shows why GM won’t, and can’t, deliver on its promises. [...] The biotech industry now hopes to boost their market with ”nutritionally enhanced” GM crops, which it claims will alleviate malnutrition and improve health. Yet after over a decade of such promises, no nutritionally enhanced crops are commercially available, while better approaches to health and nutrition are cheaper and ready to use.
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