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The GM spuds trial in Carlow - blight free

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    #32
    Ziphius
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭Ziphius


    Zuiderzee wrote: »
    Ditto - but this is Ireland, probably someone in the civil service or government has been paid off with a nice little quango as a consultant or non-executive directorship - the ghost of FF past, but then again, the Greens would have allowed it, and FG/Lab will allow it

    It's a crop research centre. They research crops. This isn't some big conspiracy.

    The objective from their website:
    "To develop cost effective crop production systems, including crops for energy and bio-processing, which improve competitiveness, profitability and product quality, and minimise impact on the environment"

    http://www.agresearch.teagasc.ie/oakpark/research.asp


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    #33
    Ziphius
    Registered Users Posts: 714 ✭✭✭Ziphius


    redser7 wrote: »
    I actually dont see the point of this trial in Ireland. Surely if these grow elsewhere in similar climates they will grow here. I dont think the results were a surprise. It seemed a bit more like kite-flying. Signalling that Ireland is open to GM crops. A political move perhaps.

    Actually just found some more information re this. The same potato line has been trialed last year in the Netherlands. The Teagasc trial must be a replicate of this to see if there is any variation between European countries.

    From the EPA website:
    The same GM potato line, as will be used during the Teagasc field trial, was released in 3 locations in the Netherlands in 2011. During these trials no unforeseen effects as compared to conventional potato varieties were observed according to the Dutch Competent Authority

    http://www.epa.ie/news/pr/2012/name,33726,en.html

    Other GM potato (a different line this time) trials are currently taking place in Belgium and the UK.

    Teagasc is working with other European research centres as part of the Amiga project which monitors the effects of GM crops on agro-ecosystems.

    http://www.amigaproject.eu/web/


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    #34
    Jim Martin
    Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭Jim Martin


    You have been warned!:

    http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/334131


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    #35
    Nonmonotonic
    Registered Users Posts: 422 ✭✭Nonmonotonic


    http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Monsanto_defeated_by_herbicide_resistant_superweeds.php

    If it was not so tragic it would be funny.

    I would like to think that all was above board as per http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=32107 but the multinational companies have more money to push the GM agenda than the other side.

    As for regulation, weren't the banks regulated?


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