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These next-generation GMOs will soon be in our fields and on our plates

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The European Parliament has just approved a new generation of genetically modified plants, the NTG. Unlike traditional GMOs, they will be able to be marketed without labeling or risk assessment.
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  1. Catali51
     

    OH LA LA LA all of this terrifies me terribly, no but who are they to allow this kind of genetic trafficking with no reflection on the potential harm to the human body ???? 

    It's horrible to see to what extent people are not aware, not warned, nor informed.

    And what about the future manipulation of human genes, if not already done ?????

    I have an immense fear of the future of the world 

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25342 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 196
       
      Difficult, apart from a dogma, to have an informed scientific opinion. Natural selection or GMOs have existed for a long time, aside from useless or even dangerous gadgets, they can have major stakes, to the extreme limiting famine in a region of the globe via the selection of a species resistant to a given parasite. A bit of complementary reading here. https://www.science-et-vie.com/nature-et-environnement/peu-de-mes-collegues-osent-sexprimer-publiquement-a-propos-des-ntg-face-aux-nouveaux-ogm-le-debat-entre-chercheurs-est-brulant-245779.html
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    2. brupala Posted messages 111196 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   14 467
       

      Hello,

      very simply, "inventing" a GMO allows us to claim ownership rights over it (unfortunately this also applies to selection).

      We should prohibit property on a species everywhere.

      We should only own what we breed.

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      1. brucine Posted messages 25342 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 196 > brupala Posted messages 111196 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        Hello,

        Farmers (and gardeners too) buy their seeds to some extent at least.

        The small Breton town where I lived for years had historically prospered (in a time without GMOs) not by selling potatoes, but by selling seeds.

        The problem, indeed, is as it happened long ago when a major player in the agro-food industry sold Indian farmers seeds that led to sterile plants.

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      2. brupala Posted messages 111196 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   14 467 > brucine Posted messages 25342 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        Afterwards, selling seeds is fortunately allowed, but we should not have the right to prevent the customer from reproducing them, when possible of course, because most hybrid varieties created by seed companies are indeed intended to be sterile in the next generation.

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  2. mariam-j Posted messages 50 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   34
     

    Hello,

    Long ago, when a strawberry fell from a table, it would smash on the floor;

    When there was a strawberry in a warehouse, you could smell it all the way to the parking lot.

    Now, the strawberries that fall bounce, and in front of two hundred kilos of strawberries, you can't smell anything at all.

    And why?

    Well, because in order for fruits to resist handling and transport, and thus reduce “breakage,” and increase profit.

    Strawberries, plums, apricots, peaches, tomatoes, in short, fragile fruits.

    Are crossbred with black radish.

    And no need to rush to the nurseryman to buy plants.

    Because they will also be hybrids, so that all this seems normal.

    That’s progress.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25342 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 196
       

      Hello,

      The sources, for the black radish?

      Commercial strawberries are all hybrids and since the origin, that’s not necessarily what prevents them from having flavor; there are very good ones, but the variety, the soil, the cultivation method, the weather, the harvest period, the storage time... and it isn’t necessarily organic that means good flavor.

      One of the three Parisian stars goes to fetch his tomatoes by TGV, to my memory, in the Vaucluse, I suppose largely due to the artisanal method.

      Most fruits are not picked ripe in order not to spoil during transport with extreme examples (apricots are most often as hard as wood), bananas are picked green and then ripen after transport with ethylene.

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