Tag Archives: GMO

Traditional knowledge ‘vital to science’

Posted on July 29, 2013 by groundswellbasscoast

GM develops few, high performing food crop  varieties, which happen to eliminate native varieties, aiming to make another Green Revolution, as in the 1970’s. Is performance always high or only when water and sunshine and fertiliser and other chemicals are all just right? … Continue reading →

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Colonised by corn

Posted on February 16, 2013 by groundswellbasscoast

TheAge/Letters – …spooked by the story ”Corn, the new golden crop on Boort farms” (14/2) about corn plantations spreading in Victoria… been reading about how feeding cattle corn gives them liver abscesses; bloating, which can be fatal; diarrhoea; weak immune … Continue reading →

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