Nobel Prize winners urge Greenpeace – Gazeta Wyborcza

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2009. Lubonia. Greenpeace activists occupy the field where grown genetically modified maize. (Fig. Grzegorz Celejewski / Agencja Gazeta)

                  
                  
                  

                  
             

             
         
     
   
   
   
 
 
 
 

"Get it over with stigmatization of genetically modified organisms" - writes 117 Nobel laureates in an open letter to the largest environmental organization in the world.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                          
 

                 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

         

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More than a hundred of the most important scientific award winners signed a letter calling for Greenpeace to end attacks on genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Scientists are calling in particular for an end to the activities of blocking the introduction of rice Golden Rice, which has been modified to contain vitamin A. It is a deficiency or lack of this vitamin is now the leading cause of blindness and death among children in developing countries.

"We call on Greenpeace and its supporters to re-consider the experience of farmers and consumers around the world with crops and food, the improved through biotechnology, recognized the discovery of reputable scientific organizations, determine the appropriate offices and agencies and abandoned the campaign against GMOs, and in particular against genetically modyfikowanemu rice "- said in the appeal.

Nobel Prize winners say that research organizations and regulatory agencies repeatedly and consistently stated that genetically modified crops and foods are just as safe, if not safer, as from other production methods. They say never confirmed a single case of adverse health consequences caused by their consumption - either in humans or in animals. On the contrary - repeatedly demonstrated that they are less harmful to the environment and increase diversification of biological.

Greenpeace opposes the cultivation of rice Golden Rice, which can reduce or eliminate many deaths and diseases caused by vitamin A deficiency, which affects mainly the poorest people in Africa and southeast Asia. The World Health Organization estimates that, because of vitamin A deficiency suffers 250 million people in developing countries, including 40 per cent. children under five years of age. According to estimates by UNICEF deficiency contributes quietly to the death of one million to two million people a year. It is also the leading cause of blindness 250 to 500 thousand. children, half of whom die within a year of blindness.

Opponents of GMOs are concerned that the consumption of genetically modified plants can be dangerous for animals and humans, such cultivation does not improve the yield, leading to increased use of herbicides and the modified plants can spread beyond the areas of crops, thereby transferring new genes into the environment.

the Nobel Prize winner Randy Schekman, a biologist at the University of California at Berkeley, commented for the "Washington Post": - I'm surprised environmentalists, who are willing to accept scientific arguments on the issue of global climate change and the widespread vaccination in the prevention of disease, can be as opposed to opinions, of scientists on the issue as important as the future of agriculture in the world.

scientists agree that modifying plants in the laboratory does not differ from the modification of the traditional culture (in both cases the change genes of the organism). A genetically modified plants can help to solve many problems - for example by reducing the demand for crops used in traditional pesticides.

co-organizer of the action is Phillip Sharp, who, in 1993. Received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of introns. The appeal already signed 107 of the 296 living Nobel Prize winners. The action has a website supportprecisionagriculture.org.

This variety of rice was established with the aim of undernourished people in developing countries, where children are adopted for blindness caused by deficiency or lack of vitamin A. Beta-carotene contained in grains of rice in the body is converted into vitamin A. the name is associated with the color yellow grains. Variety was founded by introducing into the genome of rice additional derived from maize genes that synthesize phytoene and originating from the bacterium Erwinia uredovora that determine the transformation of phytoene in beta-carotene. & Lt; / p & gt;

         

         

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