Professor Susan Bardocz PhD - Do Not Put it In, If you don't know how to take it out - AV2
Professor Susan Bardocz PhD: Do not Put it In, If you don't know how to take it out - recorded at the Alternative View 2 in May 2009.
Our diet influences our health. How nutritious our food is depends on the way it is produced. Agricultural practices determine our health.
From 1940 onwards, new agrochemicals were introduced into crop production and farming changed to industrial agriculture. Since then the main aims were to increase farm outputs, and quantity became more important than quality. Content of vitamins and minerals in intensively-grown crops sharply decreased. It has been forgotten that agriculture is not only a job for the farmers, it is also a way of feeding the people.
A new era started when genetic engineering of crops was introduced. Farming now increasingly becomes 'pharming'. Two main traits were engineered into food and feed crops: herbicide tolerance, and the ability to synthesize the insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins, effectively converting the crops into a pesticide factory.
The current safety assessment of GM crops is woefully inadequate. Secrecy and misinformation is the rule adopted by the biotech industry and their regulators. They have not learned it yet, but if you do not know how to take a gene out, do not put it in! To get our health back we have to turn to organic foods.
The Bio-tech industry looks to be determined to force GM foods into the global food chain. Are we on the brink of implementing irreversible modification of Human DNA?
With the kind permission of Ian R. Crane and The Alternative View this presentation has been made available to the public. For a high quality DVD of this presentation as well as many others from AV1, AV2, AV3, AV4 and AV5 please visit http://www.ianrcrane.com
Professor Susan Bardocz PhD is married to Dr. Árpád Pusztai, who in 1998 publicly announced that the results of his research showed feeding genetically modified potatoes to rats had negative effects on their stomach lining and immune system. This led to scientific criticism and Pusztai being suspended and his annual contract was not renewed. The resulting controversy became known as the Pusztai affair.