The truth is, those who oppose GM couldn’t care less about starvation in developing countries. Such scientific developments have always proved controversial to environmentalists. Indeed, it took environmentalists 30 years, yes, 30 years to concede that using DDT against malaria carrying mosquitoes is ‘safe and effective’. Some people here might urgue ‘better 30 year wait than be sorry’, but even now there are still some greens who are in denial about the benefits of DDT.

If the greens really cared so much about human life, why did they let 3000 children per day die in Africa? When those all those lives could have been saved if DDT were allowed to be used.

Anti-GM protesters have long ignored the scientific case for GM processes. As far as green politicians like Micheal Meacher are concerned “GM is not necessary”. It’s true, he might have a point, but by the same token, the electric light, the aeroplane and the internet is not that “necessary” either – but all three developments have made this world a far better place for us humans to live in – and that’s what really counts here.

If anything, we need to swat the arguments of those green pests who prefer to go around liberating mosquitoes, slugs and butterflies – and who put their petty political green interests before the interests of human lives.

- the genie is already out of the bottle

- our raison detre’ as a species is to advance and not remain static

I would never argue against anyone’s right to enjoy the same rights to bountiful supplies of food that I have enjoyed but here comes the negative (well you know me by now !):

We cannot be conservationists by usurping nature’s methods of population control. In persuance of this technology we must give up all pretence at trying to prevent global warming. The further explosions in population that this is bound to cause runs counter to the global warmist’s arguments as adopted by EU and domestic politicians.

Reminds me a bit of the climate change lobby.

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and suddenly over the last few days turned black. – What a pity, what a waste.
Fortunately it does not happen to large or industrial growers, and the fact that they are grown in greenhouses by large or industrial growers does mean they are less vulnerable to ‘natural’ weather conditions, and less vulnerable to ‘natural’ predators or insects.

And you get ‘nice’ looking fresh tomatoes in the supermarket, and plentiful tinned toms.

I say thank God, for industrial plastic tunnels and industrial greenhouses.
I say thank God, for the multi-variety of tomatoes, and ‘natural’ selection by Man.

PS – I’m a little tired of cherry or vine tomatoes. So cutesy, yet so small and full of seeds. I say bring back plum tomatoes and especially beef tomatoes.

Absolutely! GM has simply saved millions if not billions of lifes and it’s safety has been proven time and time again. The issue, I believe, is not with the amount of food produced but the access and food sercurity. Science can make the food; it’s up to humans to sercure for those who need it.

Why should we? Are we experiencing a global food crisis or unsustainable population growth?