Why we campaign against GM

Soil Association Chief Executive Helen Browning on GM:

"GM is a huge distraction. It is diverting a massive amount of time, effort and attention from the really crucial issues facing food and farming - like looking after our soils. We have already degraded 25 to 40% of soils worldwide and unless we work very hard to reverse this damage, it will be impossible to feed the growing population healthily. GM is dangerous because it allows us to accelerate in the wrong direction for a short while longer. Around 84% of GM crops are engineered to be resistant to Round Up (glyphosate), which kills all weeds and encourages continuous cropping until resistant weeds develop which is happening apace. Now these companies are applying to use chemicals like 2,4-D, which are so damaging that they have been banned in Europe for the past 20 years, in order to control these ‘superweeds’. This is all a madness that we predicted would happen, and we are seeing it starting again now with the Bt insecticide GM crops too.

from Soil Association http://ift.tt/1Qi1vWZ
via Don’t Let The Cost Of Organic Food Turn You Away