Gus Ternoey's Blog – January 2014 Archive (2)

Thinking GMO

As great as the benefits are for Golden Rice, with the potential to save 2 million children from dying of malnutrition, the reality is most GMO products are not focused on food nutrition but rather pesticide use. A Pesticides is a general term for a substance used to control or prevent unwanted pests, such as insects, weeds and diseases. There are numerous types of pesticides, a few common types include herbicides (controlling…

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Added by Gus Ternoey on January 17, 2014 at 1:57pm — No Comments

Thinking GMO part 1

Agriculture has advanced continuously throughout the ages to ensure that people have enough to eat. In years past the majority of the worlds population were directly involved in agriculture and so they didn't fear these advancements. That is no longer the case, at least not in the privileged countries of the world. Here in Canada roughly 98% of the population has nothing to do with the growing of there food, excluding any small garden they may maintain. So it should not come to any…

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Added by Gus Ternoey on January 10, 2014 at 1:06pm — 5 Comments

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