Anti-GM gloaters
Here's a very interesting post by a fellow blogger defending China's GM crops from anti-GM bloggers and environmentalist groups like Greenpeace.
Enjoy !
Alisa
Anti-GM gloaters
Skeptico Blog via AgBioWorld
8/30/06
It never fails to amaze me how much the anti-Genetic Modification (GM) crowd love to gloat at any problems (real or perceived) with GM crops. Reader Paul sent me a link to this Science Blogs Effect Measure article claiming GM cotton resistant to bollworm planted in China, is proving to be “a curse”, since other pests have grown stronger:
Genetically modified cotton resistant to bollworm is a reality and five million Chinese cotton farmers have embraced it. It works, too, killing bollworm larvae that used to kill their cotton. IN the late 1990s it looked like a miracle. Pesticide use was cut by 70%. After seven years, though, the miracle is looking more like a curse because new pests called mirids have rushed into the pest vacuum and taken up shop.
To read more, go to http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2006/08/gm_cotton_china.html
