NON-GM BREAKTHROUGHS - 2007

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NON-GM BREAKTHROUGHS - 2007

1.INTRO
2.ORGANIC RESEARCH
3.NON-GM BREAKTHROUGHS
4.MORE NON-GM DEVELOPMENTS

1.INTRO – GM WATCH

Does mention of allergen-free peanuts, striga-resistant cowpeas, salt-resistant wheat, beta-carotine rich sweet potatoes, virus-resistant cassavas make you think of GM?

If so, you've missed the great unpublished story of 2007 - all the non-GM breakthroughs with precisely the kind of problems (drought-resistance, salt-resistance, biofortification etc.) that GM proponents claim only GM can provide the answer to.

While GM ''miracle'' stories win vast amounts of column inches, the non-GM stories generally get minimal if any reporting in the popular media. Without GM's often exaggerated crisis narratives and silver bullet solutions, it seems there is no story!

The biotech industry and its PR people are, of course, very keen to keep it that way, particularly because the non-GM solutions are often way ahead of the work on GM. They also bring with them none of the uncertainties that surround GM.

All of this makes keeping track of some of the many non-GM success stories especially important.

Another reason it's important is because - thanks to the lack of success with GM ''solutions'' - non-GM success stories can end up being claimed as GM breakthroughs!!

This happened again recently with the UK Government's retiring Chief Scientist, David King, who claimed an important non-GM breakthrough in Africa as evidence of why we need to embrace GM.
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