I am curious what is your point to share with us the latest GM promotional
study  ?
.rice does not need pesticides to grow healthy and produce high yieldings
( confer Manasobu fukuoka's 50 years of experience growing high yields rice
the natural way without tilling ,fertilising, weeding nor treating
diseases.) .
the scientific aproach to farming has demonstrated the need for more and
more sophistication to be able to maintain some kind of productivity ( not
the kind raw foodists should be interested in... who cares about how
voluminous crops are ?).  The cost of this endless quest in making something
better out of the worst becomes such that soon enough more and more input
will be needed to get less and less return
(when it is simple enough just to sow seeds and let nature do the rest) .
jean-claude

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas E. Billings" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 10:04 AM
Subject: new study: GM rice has positive health benefits


> A new study published in the latest issue of "Science" finds GM rice to be
> a
> positive factor:
>
> Insect-Resistant GM Rice in Farmers' Fields: Assessing Productivity and
> Health Effects in China
> Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle, Carl Pray
>
> Science, Vol 308, Issue 5722, 688-690 , 29 April 2005
>
> Abstract
> Although no country to date has released a major genetically modified (GM)
> food
> grain crop, China is on the threshold of commercializing GM rice. This
> paper
> studies two of the four GM varieties that are now in farm-level
> preproduction
> trials, the last step before commercialization. Farm surveys of randomly
> selected farm households that are cultivating the insect-resistant GM rice
> varieties, without the aid of experimental station technicians,
> demonstrate
> that when compared with households cultivating non-GM rice, small and poor
> farm
> households benefit from adopting GM rice by both higher crop yields and
> reduced
> use of pesticides, which also contribute to improved health.
>
> Abstract at:  (login may be required)
> http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/308/5722/688
>
> Tom Billings
>