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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Total Sellout: Leading Agricultural Scientist Says 'Organic' Farmers Should Plant GM Crops


A former British agricultural government advisor has said that organic farming should embrace genetically modified (GM) crops as a way to make large-scale agriculture more environmentally sustainable.

Gordon Conway, a professor of international development at Imperial College London, told the Times of London that organic agriculture focuses excessively on what is "natural." Referring to the exclusion of synthetic technologies from the definition of organic as "rigid," he said that GM technology should be used to increase crop yields while limiting ecological damage.'

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Let's give Gordon Conway his full title shall we?

Sir Gordon Conway KCMG.FRS.FRGS, Ex president of the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation and current President of the Royal  Geographical Society

Now you can see that science doesn't even come into it.

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