"Mothers and children will rally outstide the United Dairyfarmers of Victora (UDV) conference in Melbourne on Tuesday to voice their opposition to milk produced from cows fed genetically modified (GM) grain," according to a story in Farmonline.
Mothers Against GE (MAdGE) spokeswoman, Glenda Lindsay, said the group – a newly formed coalition of anti-GM mothers, grandmothers and children –wanted to show farmers, Victorian consumers didn’t want genetically engineered (GE) or GM milk."
But they are already drinking it.
At least Victorian dairy farmers have been feeding their cows various amounts of GM soy -- a product that has been imported into Australia from the US -- for years.
This was a finding in an independent report by Professor Peter Lloyd commissioned by the Victorian government some years ago.
According to the spokeswoman for the mothers, Glenda Lindsay, “There are no peer reviewed studies that prove it is safe to drink milk from cows fed GM products.”
But there is no difference in milk from cows feed GM soy and non-GM soy.
I was wondering how some Australian mothers -- presumably educated women -- could be so ignorant. Then I remembered comment from a colleague some months ago, made in the context of all the global warming hysteria, he said, "Most people are too busy to think, so they 'buy' opinion."
There is a campaign to maintain the current moratorium banning the planting of GM food crops in Victoria. The ban was introduced some years ago, following Greenpeace campaigning, and is set to expire in February 2008.
Ms Lindsay also said, “It makes no sense to grow GM crops when most polls show shoppers don’t want GM foods."
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Comments from Glenda Lindsay are from a story in this week's Stock & Land. Also available through FarmOnline http://www.farmonline.com.au/news_daily.asp?ag_id=43211
Here, too, the Greenies have fallen silent.
At a low level, they perhaps sense the gathering storm of fact and reason which portends to crush their natterings conclusively.
Ant hony,
Your outdated conception of economics relies on an idealized model--it doesn't take into consideration the lies that neo-Marxists are willing to obtrude into the marketplace in order to disrupt capitalism and to encourage the rise of a different social order.
Catch a clue.
Schiller, if you knew anything about economics you would know that classical and neo-classical economics rely on the assumption that competition exists and that competition delivers optimal outcomes. Therefore anything which aggregates market power is not a good thing, which is why monopoly industries have been largely regulated for some period of time.
Anthony makes a good point.
He says, "Surely there is significant commercial risk from GM as a facilitator of increasing the concentration food production market power?"
Which means he, like others who pretend to be "green," are actually wound up over something else.
Anthony, go away and do some cheer-leading at a neo-Marxist website.
The organic movement have been targeting young nursing mums for some time now, a soft target. When you read some of the stuff you would frightened to walk outside; Its not what you know its what you dont know that is disturbing, much like the immunisation scare.
Its the reliance on fear that is scary.
Mum is going to pay a lot more for milk in the future ... so will Luke. And the fact of the matter is this. There is only one deflationary technology available to Australia and the world that can now help to address runaway food inflation and food insecurity, and whether you like to admit it or not, that is transgenic technology or GMs.
Re Anthony's Elaborate lie.
Read some more at
http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/fantastic-percys-furphys-fly-again.html
. Ill think you'll then realise that it the former rather than the latter interpretation.
In any case, The Canadian courts keep on throwing Percy's case out, after several appeals. Either he's got lousy lawyers or a poor case, or both.
“It makes no sense to grow GM crops when most polls show shoppers don’t want GM foods."
One interesting statistic thats emerged is the long trend in erosion of food reserves toward record current low levels of world food reserves.
See eg.
http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/2007/06/lowest-food-supplies-in-50-or-100-years.html
Other events that may lead to worrying continuation of this annual draw down in grain reserves is the increasing use of maize for biofuel and rapeseed for biodiesel in the US and EU. This is currently putting extra demands on farming outputs, leading to high grain prices and shipments of Canadian (GM) oilseeds to the EU to burn in EU diesel cars.
China is one country saying that's diversion of cropping to biofuel may be crazy
Thus the next year or so may lead to a revision of the widespread perception that we have "plenty of food", and that rising food and feed prices don't really matter. It may even trim the recent irrational exuberance in biofuel markets.
One good outcome though, is farmer incomes may rise.
GMO Pundit