www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkCzGzqikUA
It was 2 degees above the Antarctic here last night, Britain is covered in snow and more is on the way, so it was interesting to read this:
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/06/gm-food-revolution-government-scientist
“Britain must embrace genetically modified crops and cutting-edge developments such as nanotechnology to avoid catastrophic food shortages and future climate change, the government’s chief scientist will warn today.
In the clearest public signal yet that the government wants a hi-tech farming revolution, Professor John Beddington will say
and expected to have an extra 3 billion people to feed by 2040.
“Techniques and technologies from many disciplines, ranging from biotechnology and engineering to newer fields such as nanotechnology, will be needed,” writes Beddington in a paper, seen by the Guardian, to accompany his speech to the
“..The assumption that new technology is the answer to the global food crisis is expected to be fiercely challenged by development and environmental charities campaigners who accuse the government of not having looked at the real causes of the global food crisis. They point out that a UN-sponsored four-year review, involving more than 400 international scientists and chaired by Defra's own chief scientist, Professor Robert Watson, concluded in 2007 that GM technologies were unlikely to have more than a limited role in tackling global hunger…”
www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/foodandnutritionforum/publications.html
21st Century Farming in the
Publication Date: November 2009
Format: PDF
Price: £95 (plus VAT)
Over £100 to find out what this meeting was all about!
HOW MUCH? GOOD GRIEF! How much would it cost a normal citizen to go to one of these meetings? Would a concerned citizen even be able to get in?
Prof. Beddington was there, so were Monsanto.
“When will we get to openness and transparency in
“Never,” is the obvious answer to that.
Cheesy asks, “Why not produce a brief précis of all quasi-government meetings and seminars, and put them online for nothing, so everyone can be informed? Material like this should cost about £5 or £10 - max. so everyone can read it.” Dream on...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=18vsYFF0rTE
www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/foodandnutritionforum/farmingcons.pdf