This is shocking. There is a peer reviewed study in PLOS ONE that Busseola fusca (corn borer) has developed resistance as a DOMINANT TRAIT to Glyphosate. In TOTAL DENIAL of the scientific study, the biotech industry proposes to fix the problem with a problem, by planting maize which is tolerant to Glyphosate, 2,4-D (Agent Orange) & other toxic agrichemicals. No matter what the cost to human & environmental health…
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African Centre for Biosafety
Press Release from biotech industry to parlay hearings-Hans Wors at it again. SAFE GMOs A TOOL TO FEED GLOBAL POPULATION OF 10 BILLION By Hans Lombard Recommendations made to the parliamentary committee for agriculture, forestry and fisheries by the African Centre for BioSafety (ACB) during a briefing to overturn the GMO Executive Council’s approval of grain commodity import of Dow’s 2,4-D crops on the grounds of detrimental effects on human health as a carcinogen risk, claiming that the safety of GMO crops was a major concern, were met with strong opposition from the Agricultural Biotechnology Industry (ABI) during the same briefing. ABI rejected these ludicrous claims with sound, substantiated scientific data. Without providing substantiated peer reviewed scientific or medical data to support their claims, the ACB turned science into a circus. The ABI highlighted the use of biotechnology, GMOs, as safe as conventional food, to combat constraints in crops in order to improve yield, alleviate poverty and provide a sustainable food security for a growing population. It was emphasized that the regulatory framework of South Africa could be trusted to make decisions that were safe for the populace. Mr. Corey Pickelsimer, senior agricultural attaché, US Embassy, Pretoria, briefed the Committee that GM technologies currently available or well advanced in the pipeline are a vital tool in the toolbox needed to feed, on a sustainable basis, a global population approaching 10 billion people. “The question is whether farmers will be permitted to use this new technology. While affluent nations can afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called “organic” methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of low income, food-deficit nations cannot,” Pickelsimer said. As far as the safety of GM crops to date is concerned, he quoted ten leading international independent scientific and medical institutions, privately funded, not by industry, with substantiated scientific and medical research stating that: “We have found no new risks to human health or the environment from GMOs approved by regulators so far.” The institutions are: