GM issues | What does a GM future offer?
The potential for mixed up genes to produce mixed up proteins, which are harmful to you and me is unlimited. Bizarre proteins can cause problems which emerge after days, months or years, or may be evident only in your children or grand-children.
Genetic engineers use the principle of the survival of the weakest to produce their novel crops. They bombard a few million plant cells with their engineered genes. For every 9,999 healthy cells which reject the foreign gene, they succeed in transforming one cell whose health is too poor to withstand the attack. Your food is then grown from these few frail specimens. The transformed plants are driven to churn out huge quantities of an alien substance they don't need, under the influence of an alien gene that they never asked for. The inherent energy drain stemming from this forced metabolic labour, gives us plants with an in-built susceptibility to stress and disease.
Crops based on weakened GM stock will require increasingly fancier cocktails of agrichemicals to keep them alive, while the likelihood of crop failure increases year by year.
Let's not even talk about the consequences in store for us when the ubiquitous chunks of viral and bacterial DNA being artificially incorporated into our food, rearrange themselves and pop back out in a form so malignant, you would rather not know about it.
Genetic engineering of our food supply is a travesty of science, and a biological absurdity. A GM future offers global disease and famine.
When will our GM future happen?
Disturbances in the soil used to grow GM crops, or in our own physiology due to a GM diet, might take twenty years or more to become so obvious we can no longer ignore them. But the pollution of our land and our food is happening now.
Where are these engineered genes?
Experimental plots of GM plants are being grown in several sites around Scotland.
Despite overwhelming rejection of GM food in Europe, our food chain has been intentionally riddled with GM derivatives and animal feed. Conventional crops are being steadily polluted by both commercial and experimental GM crops in may parts of the world.”
Why do we need a GM future?
We need a GM future like we need a hole in the head. Scotland's prosperity and health will be built on the purity of it's land and the wholesomeness of it's food.
Our food industry at home and abroad thrives on its reputation for quality. Our visitors come to Scotland to revel in its unspoilt beauty. These are assets we can't afford to destroy, and must be preserved from the ravages of genetic interference.
Who can protect Scotland from a GM future? YOU!