Talk:Terminator Technology
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · history · refresh · how to use this template) This article appears to reflect commercial interests, and thus not to be reliable. I write this not as an agronomist, but as a professional terminologist who is concerned about slanted definitions, in Wikipedia and elsewhere. If it were me and I did not have access to a less-interested expert, I would simply dispose of such entries, as they compromise the integrity of the database as a whole. Eaton0824 (talk) 21:46, 6 February 2008 (UTC) |
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I'd like to discuss in particular the section headed "The inequitable distribution of means; the targeting of vulnerable classes".
In particular, given the very low likelihood of cross pollination from GURT-containing plants giving rise to sterile seeds, how would communities "become dependent" on industry for seeds?
If the people have not chosen to buy seeds that contain a GURT, I would have thought that the presence of GURTs in other crops, nearby, actually protects the integrity of any farm-saved seed.
Would someone please enlighten me, before I edit this section.
Thanks
JeremyCherfas 10:17, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
I am a consulting Arborist so I work with trees not farm crops. I have allot of freind in plant research. But I think the concern is that the treminator gene is in the pollen of the gurt plant, it could be transfered via pollenators to the native species, this could cause a large precentage of seeds to be sterile. This could put a small farmer out of business within just a few years or they would have to buy corperate seeds to survive. There is no way to know how gene like this will affect the overall enviroment. Playing with nature can have very negative effects.
Monsanto has been developing seeds for years and years, alot of this R&D work has been paid for by the USDA with the corperation reaping the profits. These terminator seeds are more about controlling agriculture and people. Look into Monsanto's Bovine Growth Hormone it is some scary stuff, linked to cancer and allot of other problems, yet it is still legal in the US. Also a really good video on this subject can be found on google video search for "Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs"
Dec 30 2007 6pm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.205.217.129 (talk) 00:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Anonymous Arborist
Any small farmer that routinely saved seeds "a large percentage" of which had been pollinated by undesirable neighbouring varieties or wild relatives would have starved to death long ago. Even in the most obligate outbreeders, such as brassicas, crossing is between neighbouring plants, not with far-off varieties. I'm not arguing that industry has often reaped the benefits of government-funded research, only with this one view of how pollination actually works.
JeremyCherfas (talk) 09:25, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
