Government slated over GM ‘superweed’ case

mkpdavies · 27-07-2005, 11:14 AM

http://www.greenconsumerguide.com/index.php?news=2697

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The UK government has been slammed by green group Friends of the Earth for ‘ignoring its own evidence’ on genetically modified crops, following the news this week that a biotech ‘superweed’ had been confirmed in the wild. Research originally revealed in the Guardian showed that a conventional weed had developed herbicide resistance after cross-fertilisation with a GM variety from a crop trial.

Superweeds, just what we friggin need. I have enough grief with normal weeds!

Good to here the government is happily ignoring their own research to keep the donations rolling in.

lkelly · 28-07-2005, 08:08 PM

Superweeds, due to their survival capacities, will increase in number, and take over in the wild. This is actually an extremely serious problem, which the government has been extremely irresposible to allow to happen. And they did ignore the results of their own research.

Blair seems to have no understanding of the natural world at all. Just before the election, he laughed in an interview when he said that bee keepers had wanted him to fund their work.

The fact is, that without bees, there would be no fruit, and fewer flowers and vegetables, and nuts. These industries/farmers rely on bees to fertilise flowers, and their crops suffer when there are fewer bees. And, due to many reasons, such as a foreign mite which eats them alive, and African killer bees arriving here in fruit/etc, and surviving due to global warming and their aggressivity, and interbreeding with them, they are becoming endangered. And we are getting African killer bees INTO phpbb_our country.

Blair is too stupid to consider that their could possibly be any reason to consider that the endangerment of an insect could matter. He hasn't even tried listening, obviously. He is a deaf fool! No wonder everyone says he doesn't listen. I picked these things up from the newspapers! He doesn't seem to listen when he is personally addressed!

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28-07-2005, 08:08 PM	#2 (permalink)
lkelly Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: London. Posts: 636	Superweeds, due to their survival capacities, will increase in number, and take over in the wild. This is actually an extremely serious problem, which the government has been extremely irresposible to allow to happen. And they did ignore the results of their own research. Blair seems to have no understanding of the natural world at all. Just before the election, he laughed in an interview when he said that bee keepers had wanted him to fund their work. The fact is, that without bees, there would be no fruit, and fewer flowers and vegetables, and nuts. These industries/farmers rely on bees to fertilise flowers, and their crops suffer when there are fewer bees. And, due to many reasons, such as a foreign mite which eats them alive, and African killer bees arriving here in fruit/etc, and surviving due to global warming and their aggressivity, and interbreeding with them, they are becoming endangered. And we are getting African killer bees INTO phpbb_our country. Blair is too stupid to consider that their could possibly be any reason to consider that the endangerment of an insect could matter. He hasn't even tried listening, obviously. He is a deaf fool! No wonder everyone says he doesn't listen. I picked these things up from the newspapers! He doesn't seem to listen when he is personally addressed!