[escepticos] Ultimas noticias sobre los trasngenicos (2)

["EZS" <diotalle@...>]

Mas noticias y un comentario utopico...

Unos comentarios de Blair que no he visto reflejados en la prensa de aqui, y que
logicamente proponen una posicion intermedia.

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THE GUARDIAN (20/02/99)

Blair: Why We Must Not Ban Gm Foods 
>From the Press Association
Friday February 19, 1999  10:50 pm

Tony Blair has warned that banning genetically-modified foods without proper 
scientific evidence would jeopardise Britain's position at the cutting edge of 
21st century technology.

The Prime Minister, writing in The Daily Telegraph, said biotechnology was set 
to be as important to the next century as the computer had been to the current 
one and Britain must not throw away its leading position because of 
"scaremongering".

After a week of intense criticism over the Government's refusal to impose a 
moratorium on development of GM foods, Mr Blair vowed to resist the "orchestrated 
barrage" from the media and the "tyranny of pressure groups".

He said that, if it was successful, GM technology could lead to the development 
of cheaper and better foods, while reducing farmers' reliance on harmful pesticides 
and herbicides.

While he stressed the Government was committed to consumer safety as a 
matter of paramount importance, it was essential also to understand the risks 
involved in banning GM technology without scientific justification.

"I am no scientist, but those who are make what seems to me a compelling case 
that biotech, the human genome project and genetic modification in its various 
forms will be the revolutionary science of the 21st century, as important as the 
computer was for the late 20th century," he said.

"There is no scientific evidence on which to justify a ban on GM foods and crops.

"If we were to ban products that our independent scientific advisers tell us are 
safe, we would send a negative message to the whole biotech industry in the 
UK - in healthcare as well as in food and in agriculture - that its future will be 
governed not by evidence but by media scares.

"And we would stop British expertise in farming and science from leading the way."

He acknowledged that the development of a new science touching on the 
fundamentals of food safety and the environment would raise "reasonable 
anxieties".

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Como decia. Esto de que las multinacionales, gestionen los grandes avances 
tecnologicos en beneficio de *toda* la humanidad, es muy ironico. Y me rio de
ello. Como ya comente en el debate sobre la neutralidad o no de la ciencia y la
tecnologia, existen unas condiciones con las que esta relacionada el "sistema
tecnocientifico" que hacer dudar de su total altruismo, y es precisamente la
cuestion de las multinacionales y similares. Me remito a ellos (estan en los
archivos). Entonces comente la actitud de Patarroyo, el investigador 
sudamericano que a puesto a punto la vacuna contra la malaria, de no patentar
dicho descubrimiento, y sino recuerdo mal legarsela a la Organizacion Mundial
de la Salud (no estoy seguro). Lo mejor seria crear un Organismo Internacional
de investigacion, pagado por todos los paises, y utilizar esos descubrimientos
bajo patente comun o algo asi, como una verdadera aportacion a la sociedad, y
no como un medio rapido de enrriquecimiento de las multinacionales. Ahora dicen,
que se crean semillas resistentes al roundup, por que los genes de la resistencia
y los de la maduracion, son los unicos que se conocen suficientemente. Que
curioso. Sera muy utopico, poder hacer algo asi quiza exista otras alternativas,
pero hay que apuntar alto si se quiere parar a esos monstruos empresariales. 

bye...

Eduardo Zotes Sarmiento
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