Tuesday 25 February 2020

'GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children’ | Quillette

Ethiopian school for blind children, Amhara Gandar. Joerg Boethling.
In the “the road to hell....” category, many good intentions about GM, but Europe is not following the science. The science is unanimous that GM crops are safe and would increase yields particularly in some of the poorest parts of the world, on African farms.
The article by Matt Ridley is at Quillette and my Word here courtesy Quillette. [And Webarchive here]
Same thing in fighting the locusts. The Green lobby has stopped insecticides that are the only way the plague can realistically be stopped. Meantime, they are eating Africa’s future. “The Danger of Green Colonialism”. [Or access here in Word, courtesy WSJ]