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To: AnotherUnixGeek

The world's poor are starving themselves. Nobody is forcing Third World governments to ban farmers from growing GE food, least of all the Europeans. They need to stop blaming other people and take responsibility for themselves.


4 posted on 08/31/2005 8:13:08 AM PDT by Lejes Rimul (Paleo and Proud)
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To: Lejes Rimul
The world's poor are starving themselves. Nobody is forcing Third World governments to ban farmers from growing GE food, least of all the Europeans. They need to stop blaming other people and take responsibility for themselves.

Very well stated!

10 posted on 08/31/2005 8:27:59 AM PDT by kipita (Rebel – the proletariat response to Aristocracy and Exploitation.)
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To: Lejes Rimul
Nobody is forcing Third World governments to ban farmers from growing GE food, least of all the Europeans.

You're wrong, that is exactly what they are doing. From an article written by the father of the "green revolution", Norman Borlaug:

    The U.S. is contemplating a WTO suit because European resistance to GM foods is increasingly influencing the trade policies of other nations, to the point where some African governments recently have turned down American GM grain intended for starving people. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick says he has information that several European countries are threatening to make economic aid to developing countries contingent on whether they prohibit biotech crops. If this is true, it would be tragic and grossly irresponsible.

12 posted on 08/31/2005 8:29:35 AM PDT by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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