even if Prof. Umberto Veronesi, an oncologist of world-famous person of great intellectual gifts, is not one of those who are wrong to frame the issue of GMOs, it means that probably there is a lack of communication and movement of real problems as a result of which millions of peasants struggling against their spread around the world. Happening yesterday, TG1, when in-studio guest is interviewed on the role of genetic research to fight cancer and is spent for research on GMOs in agriculture. Spurred on this topic, Veronesi says there is reason to be opposed to GMOs because there is no proof of harm (but not, say, a proof to the contrary), and already millions of people use them daily. Then gives an example that cuts the bull's head: it is thanks to a genetic modification in bacteria, obtained by implanting human genetic traits, which can now be cheap to produce insulin for diabetics.
fact, the point is this: genetic research is important, should not be mortified if his goals are the human health and the improvement in quality of life, especially since the creation of artificial variety is a genetic crossing all effects and is as old as agriculture. The varieties are selected by humans have proved very effective in some cases, since they are able to optimize the strength characteristics of the climate in areas where cultivation is difficult, or to improve crop yields, as was done with technical-scientific-but-traditional Nazarene Strampelli all 'beginning of the twentieth century. In many parts of the world, however, this vast wealth has been wiped out by industrial varieties, and now that you need it, do not try to recover the traditional ones but are investing billions of dollars to create new ones. Genetic research focused, quality-controlled by the world she is addressing-that is, farmers and consumers-would certainly be desirable. Behavior dill unfair doppiogiochistici, hypocrisy and greed for power and money we do not really need.
The problem that no one touches it, then even the great-Verona-invests the sphere of power of transnational corporations that produce GMO seeds, and the rights of farmers. Usurpations, collusion between private companies and governments, tensions and violence related to such conflicts, violations of rights, economic subjections poor, even extermination of communities through a radical appropriation of their lands and massive infiltration of economic and social balances in their outsiders who disrupt their culture. No one from the CRT, looks into Italian homes to tell them that, while the pathogenic risk associated with GMOs is only a possibility for the future, the enormous socio-economic imbalances brought on by companies of 'agribusiness are an immediate problem is pervasive. It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars for research that enslaves or destroys ancient cultures, especially if they already have a boundless knowledge, are the custodians of biodiversity for humans is only an advantage and are actors in a ' sensitive agriculture, linked to land, natural, intrinsically ethical because it pursues human needs, not corporate balance sheets.
If the prof. Veronesi is truly interested in the lives of human beings, must be aware that GMOs are not life, and will not be sown by hand until hypocritical in pain and blood of the poor.
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