Talk:NPG; 1600 schapen dood na eten bladeren Bt katoen
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Dit is een hoax!
Zie http://www.botanischergarten.ch/Cotton/Bt-is-Not-the-Culprit-AF.pdf en onderstaand artikel
- dr.ir. Herman van Eck
- Laboratorium voor Plantenveredeling
- Wageningen Universiteit
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 137.224.252.10 (talk • contribs) 11:38, 6 Jul 2006.
1600 Dead Sheep in India? What a wonderful headline for the opponents of GM cotton!
Dear Friends,
This is Message No.2 about the 1600 Dead Sheep, another false but professionally spread scare story of Indian activists, taken up without any hesitation and critique by Greenpeace.
The 'news' has been spread in many media, especially those critical to modern biotechnology in agriculture. Two well known scientists in the field have carefully scrutinized these newspaper articles, taking the pseudoscientific bla bla apart. The claim, that 1600 sheep have died by feeding on abandoned Bt-cotton fields is not validated by scientific review of the two authors below.
Dr. Shanthu Shantharam is the president of Biologistics International (USA) and an independent biotechnology consultant with expertise on the safety of biotech crops. Dr CS Prakash is a professor at Tuskegee University (USA) and president of AgBioWorld Foundation
The original column Bt is Not the Culprit has been published in Biospectrum India June 15, 2006 http://www.biospectrumindia.com/content/columns/10606151.asp
Here is a link with the same text with a few added citations of scientific articles mentioned in the column. http://www.botanischergarten.ch/Cotton/Bt-is-Not-the-Culprit-AF.pdf
We recommend Greenpeace International to read the above article, in particular also the scientific papers cited.
QUESTION TO ACTIVISTS We ASK GREENPEACE: Why do we see on your webpage of Greenpeace international those scaremongering accusations without any scientific scrutiny? We cite out of the original Greenpeace report (link given below):
The impact of GM technology on human health and biodiversity remain unpredictable, untested and irreversible. Despite this, the government is on the verge of approving large scale field trials of GM brinjal (eggplant) - the first GM food crop in India," said Rajesh Krishnan, Greenpeace genetic engineering campaigner. "Indians will be the first people in the world to eat GM brinjal. It’s vital that the Agriculture Ministry first address the question raised by the cows and sheep today - Can GM Foods kill?
Obviously, the Greenpeace representatives writing such alarmist stuff really believe what they write... (frankly: I can hardly imagine - I rather believe that this new scaremongering is part of the campaign to prevent the approval of large scale field trials by the Indian government, where facts don't count anymore. The real purpose is to strike fear into the heart of the population and government officials in order to get more financial support.)
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Best regards,
Prof. Klaus Ammann Chairman of the EFB Section on Biodiversity & Moderator of the EFB Ask-Force Forum
