E 'of these days the news that the European Commission decided to give the green light to the cultivation for industrial purposes, of genetically modified potato Amflora the chemical company BASF and the use of three species of genetically modified corn from Monsanto.
The measure is of exceptional importance, which seems to put an end to the precautionary embargo in force for twelve years, breaks the delay a bit 'too superficial and arrives as a cold shower in an atmosphere full of misinformation and confusion fueled by services TG5 like this aired on March 3 at 13:00
In the second part during the interviews from 'assume that GM will end sooner or later in our dishes, but perhaps this is not a matter of form but it is that resignation and reverence are essential for work in certain environments.
Research is established must go on regardless and without too many obstacles but the manner in which they are employed discoveries affect us all if we had only the slightest suspicion that they are harmful to human health.
Potatoes generally has a high starch content made up for the 20% amylose and 80% of amylopectin. The latter is used for the production of paper, adhesives and textile industry exploiting the characteristic of thickening.
are not chemically or biologically, but I have learned these concepts from their site of BASF where they say the potato Amflora the gene for amylose is turned off gel slows industrial processes require a long pre-treatment.
The result is a potato starch which is made of 100% amylopectin.
What is not mentioned on the site in order to achieve this purpose was used called a gene marker nptII, which confers resistance to two aminoglycoside antibiotics, kanamycin and neomycin and that, as claimed Adiconsum Coldiretti and researchers, this resistance could be transferred to human gut bacterial flora of animals having had if it was given Amflora potato as feed and this is the second intended use in the request made by BASF to the EU as stated in their site forever.
E 'own EFSA stating that "the probability that the nptII gene is translocated from the plant to bacteria is very low" to acknowledge indirectly that the risk is there.
Quest 'GM is also sold without brokers directly with farmers who enter into a contract where you carry out an "identity preservation system" that follows the product from cultivation to harvesting, a real copyright.
In all this, considering the series of proclamations gooders these days, I can not really find something that is useful to help fight hunger in the world unless the exploited peoples and hungry do not begin to feed on paper after waited for the time it takes for the patent expires.
Once again you take advantage of people's sensitivity to justify the introduction of a product that not only enrich but only those who produce it will introduce as a trojan horse the idea that the unknown from which we come to become someone's property just because he had the idea to change a piece.
One can not entertain any fear as the background of other companies such as Monsanto and its terminator seed and the increasing prevalence of food allergies in some serious matters such as celiac disease, which feed the impression that some genetic change has already taken the against him.
yet nothing is definitive because the European Commission itself has also announced its intention to submit a proposal this summer to decide freely to individual Member States whether or not to grow GMOs on their territory. A
this respect is the important position of Minister of Agriculture Luca Zaia which has expressed its intention to initiate proceedings to ask the European Commission with which the safeguard clause to block the sale and cultivation of GM potato in our territories.
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