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I do not have the knowledge or skill to evaluate the article's quality nor to fact check its claims. I just want the GM debate to go beyond caricatural "all criticism of GMOs is postmodernist pseudoscience" and "all GMO proponents are capitalists and anti-agroecology" stances.
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Lynas's whole shtick,
@glenndavisstone points out, is "to promote the conceit that the GMO wars pit scientists against activists" and "whisk from view the enormous body of critical peer-reviewed natural-science and social-science literature on the topic" https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/the-dubious-virtue-of-apostasy/ … -
GMO, went from very anti to very pro. Why? If science informed my opinion on climate change, it should inform my view on GMOs. Thanks to
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The agrichemical industry's chronically inaccurate and misleading frontline messengers really want the
#GMO debate to be over - but is it? (background on Entine https://bit.ly/31ORXzO and Lynas https://bit.ly/3dDPKdc )pic.twitter.com/5wotLRnSNS
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People need to listen to the scientists and get their information from the experts who have a very strong consensus that
#GMO technology doesn't present any additional risks to the consumers, said Mark Lynas. https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2016/10/mark-lynas-on-climate-change-and-gmos/ … -
Would be great if
@joerogan had@mark_lynas as a guest on his podcast to provide a balanced counter argument to@BartElmore’s demonising of conventional and GMO agriculture Food and fibre for 8 billion people is a complex issue that deserves more attention pic.twitter.com/kiNlyLrPXS
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And the pesticide &
#GMO loving, climate change denying, lobbyist (not to mention the UK's worst environment minister ever) is gone. Shame on all those who gave him a platform, like Mark Lynas, the Cornell Alliance for Science & the Breakthrough Institute https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/the-new-denial-is-delay-at-the-breakthrough-c97 …https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1456268398048940045 … -
Ik kan dit makkelijk omdraaien. GMO markten kunnen ook een vorm van eco-colonialisme zijn. Dus wie heeft er nu gelijk?
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Preventing smallholder African farmers from using GMO & biotech, while forcing them to use organic farming and agro-ecology, is a reprehensible form of "eco-colonialism" by rich western NGOs. Same story with the push for '100% renewables'.
@mark_lynas https://progressive-agrarwende.org/ecocolonialism-let-africans-decide-for-themselves/ … -
Nigeria is running short of GMO cowpea seeds due to high demand from small-scale farmers, who vastly prefer the new seeds because there are higher yields and they require less pesticides. https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2021/10/nigerian-farmers-just-cant-get-enough-of-gmo-cowpea-seeds/ … from
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Can you be sure that these GMO can never cross with wild plants and 'leak' modified genes into a plant population?
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Depending on the GMO technique used. But yes, tradicional breeding techniques were applied for thousands of years, and I don't Jonagold apples appearing evrywhere or competing with wild types. Wild tipes are almost always more resistent.
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The ring leaders appear to be Monbiot and Lynas. Why am I not surprised? You have to be in the gang, which is ironic really because I remember clearly the furore that was aimed at Lynas by the Green Party in the U.K. when Lynas announced his support for nuclear as well as GMO.
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"I had followed Mark Lynas’s admirable U-turn on GMO technology and on nuclear power, and seen environmentalist George Monbiot speak out in favour. I felt emboldened by those who are willing to amend their opinions based on facts." Sorry to hear, Zion. Don't understand it.
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People change. I was climatoskeptic, Mark Lynas was anti GMO! Always place for improvement or degradation
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This is it: Greenpeace opposes Golden Rice only because its a GMO. They are scared as hell that it may work, showing that GMOs can save lives. Opposition to GMOs is their money cow and it could halt with the success of Golden Rice. There are now inherent risks of GMOs.
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GR has a conversion factor of 4.5:1 for provitamin A to Vitamin A. In sweet potato it's 13:1. Three times less effective. And that yield in that diagram for GR is for GR1, 1.6 ug/g. GR2 has 37 ug/g. But so long as it's not GMO, that's the main thing, eh? Means over ends always! pic.twitter.com/M84HimIDDf
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Let me introduce you to something called the 'rule of three'. This states that the chance of a hitherto unseen side effect resulting from substance is 3/number of doses to date. Billions of GMO meals have been consumed by people and not one case of sickness so far. Do the math.
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I actually think Mark Lynas' 7 point "GMO debate peace plan" is pretty solid. https://marklynas.org/2018/01/05/mark-lynas-speech-to-the-oxford-farming-conference-2018/ …
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FALSE:
@NYTmag follows pro-GMO lobbyist Mark Lynas in blaming anti-GMO activists for the failure of GMO golden rice. FACT: A study led by@glenndavisstone has debunked this idea. They found it was basic research & development problems that had plagued this lacklustre#GMO crop. pic.twitter.com/oUnjAsmk3J
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