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Boy I sure wish you were smart enough to understand what you post....
Obviously you don't understand what this means:
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The European Commission has decided to freeze the approval process for genetically modified food crops through the end of its mandate next year while it works towards an agreement with EU member states.
Let me put it in baby terms for you:
There already is a freeze in place through 2014 on certain GM crops and all this means by the freeze is there will be no approvals granted PERIOD through 2014....
In other words NOTHING HAS CHANGED....
Did you also read this?
However the MON810 can continue to be cultivated in states which allow it until the Commission takes a decision.
Oh, and BTW, once again you show us exactly where you are in the maturity scale by your name calling....
"Researchers with the European Food Safety Authority discovered variants of the Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S in the most widely harvested varieties of genetically-modified crops, including Monsanto's RoundupReady Soy and Maze. According to the researchers, Podevin and du Jardin, the particular 'Gene VI' is responsible for a number of possible consequences that could affect human health, including inhibition of RNA silencing and production of proteins with known toxicity.
The EFSA is endorsing 'retrospective risk assessment' of CaMV promoter and its Gene VI sequences — in an attempt to give it a clean bill of health. It is unknown if the presence of the hidden viral genes were the result of laboratory contamination or a possible recombinant product of the resultant organism.
Of course if someone else <ahem> had posted this there would have been no mention of laboratory contamination or a possible recombinant product of the resultant organism.......
Of course if someone else <ahem> had posted this there would have been no mention of laboratory contamination or a possible recombinant product of the resultant organism.......
a followup on that from the authors of the research you cited-
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"It has been known for some years that a DNA sequence used to turn genes on and off (a gene switch) in some GM plants also forms the tail end of a virus gene in the Cauliflower mosaic virus. This naturally occurring plant virus is ubiquitous in plants and derived foods, both GM and non-GM, and does not pose safety concerns to human and animal health.”
"In the light of recent advances in the understanding of how this gene behaves when it occurs within a virus, we did a comprehensive risk assessment of the part of the Cauliflower mosaic virus used as a gene switch. We were looking at how the presence of part of this viral gene may affect the physiology of the GM plants. We studied the variants of the gene switch that are introduced in GM plants and the conditions under which this gene segment could be turned on to produce a viral protein fragment, in detail. No risks to human health were identified when this gene was present in GM plants.”
So as has been said over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over in this thread:
Those who believe GM crops are evil and bad for humans will continue to think that way and those that believe GM crops will be and are beneficial to mankind will continue to think that way...
This thread has become about as useful as t*ts on a bull......
Analytical Report: The income and production effects of biotech crops globally 1996–2010
Volume 3, Issue 4 October/November/December 2012
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GM technology has had a significant positive impact on farm income derived from a combination of enhanced productivity and efficiency gains (Table 1). In 2010, the direct global farm income benefit from biotech crops was $14 billion. This is equivalent to having added 4.3% to the value of global production of the four main crops of soybeans, maize, canola and cotton. Since 1996, farm incomes have increased by $78.4 billion.
The largest gains in farm income in 2010 have arisen in the cotton sector, largely from yield gains. The $5 billion additional income generated by GM insect resistant (GM IR) cotton in 2010 has been equivalent to adding 14% to the value of the crop in the biotech growing countries, or adding the equivalent of 11.9% to the $42 billion value of the global cotton crop in 2010.
Green Biotechnology Factsheet: Global Adoption
17.01.2013
How many products are safe by EU standards?
By December 2012, 66 GM products were declared safe by EFSA.
48 of these were authorised in the EU, and another 19 were waiting
for a political decision to be approved. The graph below shows the
evolution of the EU authorisation system in recent years: 74 products
are currently waiting for approval in total (blue line), amongst which
55 are being examined by EFSA (red line). Every year, more product
applications for authorisation are being submitted (green bars) than
authorisations are received (yellow bars).
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