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Tabaco transgénico contra o ébola
Quando eu vejo esse tipo de noticia me faz acreditar mais na teoria de conspiracao que diz que tudo isso de ebola e puro false flag !
Tabaco transgénico contra o ébola
African bishops, in particular, have long complained about how progressive, Western ideas about birth control and gay rights are increasingly being imposed on the developing world by groups, institutions or individual nations, often as a condition for development aid.
"Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonized," Francis said.
During the Vatican's recent meeting on the family, African bishops denounced how aid groups and lending institutions often condition their assistance on a country's compliance with their ideals: allowing healthcare workers to distribute condoms, or withdrawing assistance if legislation discriminating against gays is passed.
The US was accused yesterday of putting intense pressure on United Nations organisations, the European Union and individual countries to support the export of GM food aid to six African countries facing severe hunger in the coming months.
Three countries were insisting that the food be milled to prevent the seeds being planted by farmers who may unwittingly pre-empt national legislation.
But the three countries who have put conditions on the food - and are preparing to mill it themselves - are angry at the pressure tactics used by the US, which has refused to offer conventional food or to mill the seeds.
"We cannot be so irresponsible so as to risk the lives of innocent people," Mundia Sikatana, Zambia's agriculture minister, said. "We don't need to engage in biotechnology at this stage. If we engage in GM our exports will be thrown overboard and that will cost thousands of jobs".
Two leading international environment and development groups accused the US yesterday of manipulating the southern African food crisis to benefit their GM food interests and of using the UN to distribute domestic food surpluses which could not otherwise find a market.
In response to criticism by senior US officials that they have been playing with people's lives by encouraging countries to resist GM food sent as aid, Greenpeace and Actionaid also accused the US government's overseas aid body of offering only GM food when conventional foods were available.
Greenpeace accused the US government and the biotech industry of using the aid system as a covert subsidy for US farmers. Swaziland, Lesotho and Mozambique have accepted the GM food but Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe are reluctant to import it in seed form. They fear that farmers may plant some of the seeds, and that it may affect both their environment and future food exports.
"This shows that the alternative to rejecting GM food aid is not starvation," Alice Wynne Wilson, of Actionaid, said. "Good practice in emergency aid is to provide cash support to the UN's World Food Programme, so that it can buy grain from the most cost-effective sources.
"Bringing large volumes of food into a region that has areas of surplus can lead to a situation where there are food shortages in one part of a country, and locally produced food rotting in other parts."
Yesterday both the Zambian and Malawian governments said that they could easily source non-GM food locally if they had the resources.
Ukraine and, to a wider extent, Eastern Europe, are among the most promising growth markets for farm-equipment giant Deere, as well as seed producers Monsanto and DuPont, said Michael Cox, senior analyst and research director at Piper Jaffray. Ukraine's growth is becoming even more important, as it will serve to counterbalance the South American farm markets, where overseas growth has been increasing in places like Argentina and Brazil for these companies.
Genetically modified corn seeds are no longer protecting Brazilian farmers from voracious tropical bugs, increasing costs as producers turn to pesticides, a farm group said on Monday.
Producers want four major manufacturers of so-called BT corn seeds to reimburse them for the cost of spraying up to three coats of pesticides this year, said Ricardo Tomczyk, president of Aprosoja farm lobby in Mato Grosso state.
Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation.
The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm.
By isolating the genes that regulate the manufacture of these antibodies, and by putting them in corn plants, the company has created tiny horticultural factories that make contraceptives.
When former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer III left Baghdad after the so-called "transfer of sovereignty" in June 2004, he left behind the 100 orders he enacted as chief of the occupation authority in Iraq. Among them is Order 81 on "Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety." [1] This order amends Iraq's original patent law of 1970 and unless and until it is revised or repealed by a new Iraqi government, it now has the status and force of a binding law. [2] With important implications for farmers and the future of agriculture in Iraq, this order is yet another important component in the United States' attempts to radically transform Iraq's economy.
While historically the Iraqi constitution prohibited private ownership of biological resources, the new US-imposed patent law introduces a system of monopoly rights over seeds. Inserted into Iraq's previous patent law is a whole new chapter on Plant Variety Protection (PVP) that provides for the "protection of new varieties of plants." PVP is an intellectual property right (IPR) or a kind of patent for plant varieties which gives an exclusive monopoly right on planting material to a plant breeder who claims to have discovered or developed a new variety. So the "protection" in PVP has nothing to do with conservation, but refers to safeguarding of the commercial interests of private breeders (usually large corporations) claiming to have created the new plants.
Dez organizações ambientalistas portuguesas querem que a União Europeia proíba o herbicida glifosato, o mais utilizado em Portugal e agora considerado como suspeito de provocar cancro por uma agência da Organização Mundial de Saúde.
Numa reavaliação de vários pesticidas divulgada na sexta-feira, a Agência Internacional de Investigação sobre o Cancro (IARC, como é conhecida na sigla em francês) concluiu que o glifosato é um “carcinogénico provável para o ser humano”. Isto significa que há provas científicas convincentes de que a substância provoca cancro em animais de laboratório e provas limitadas de que também o faz no ser humano.
Mas foi a classificação do glifosato que tem feito correr tinta, não só pela sua larga utilização na agricultura, como por estar associado à polémica sobre os organismos geneticamente modificados. Nos Estados Unidos, o uso do glifosato subiu em flecha desde a introdução, no final dos anos 1990, de milho e da soja transgénica. Estas variedades são resistentes ao herbicida, que assim pode ser aplicado sobre as culturas, eliminando outras plantas indesejáveis.
Em Portugal, apenas é plantada uma variedade de milho transgénico, em quantidades marginais – cerca de 5% da área total de culturas de milho. Mas o uso do glifosato também aumentou, de cerca de 700 toneladas em 2001 para pouco mais de 1100 toneladas em 2012, segundo dados da Direcção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária.
“A situação em Portugal é particularmente grave”, avalia, num comunicado, a Plataforma Transgénicos Fora, que reúne dez organizações não-governamentais portuguesas. O glifosato, segundo a Plataforma, também é utilizado nas plantas domésticas, na limpeza das ruas e passeios e em linhas de água.
A multinacional Monsanto – que comercializa tanto o glifosato quanto as culturas transgénicas que a ele resistem – alega que a IARC baseou-se em estudos antigos e desconsiderou novas investigações sobre a toxicidade do produto.
Num comunicado, a Monsanto lembra que na mesma categoria em que a IARC agora classificou o glifosato estão “o café, os telefones celulares, o extracto de aloé vera e vegetais em conserva, bem como profissões como barbeiro”.
Greenpeace. Portugal deve proibir cultivo de transgénicos
França era o país que mais produzia e já proibiu, “o que demonstra que não são necessários”.
O coordenador da área de Agricultura da Greenpeace Espanha considerou esta quarta-feira que Portugal deve aprovar legislação a proibir o cultivo de transgénicos e apelou a que se faça um registo exaustivo das culturas com este tipo de sementes.
"O que pedimos é que Portugal, Espanha e os outros três países europeus que os usam [República Checa, Eslovénia e Roménia], uma minoria na UE, sigam o caminho da maioria. Já são nove os países que proibiram o cultivo de transgénicos, entre eles a França, o maior produtor da Europa. O que demonstra que não são necessários", considerou à agência Lusa Luís Ferreirim, da Greenpeace Espanha.
A associação ambientalista apresentou esta quarta-feira um mapa do uso de transgénicos em Espanha, no qual identifica a região da Extremadura (que faz fronteira com Portugal) como a terceira com mais hectares deste tipo de cultivo no país vizinho
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