is issue he has given a few speeches and even starting an online forum on the subject. He is pushing for public debate on GM food. He believes GM is more than just an extension of selective breeding techniques that mixing genetic material from different species that would normally not breed "takes us into areas that should be left to God." He says we should not meddle with the building block of life. He does feel that genetic manipulation could lead to good in the field of medicine, agriculture and the health of the environment, but that advanced technology brings dangers with it also. He, along with several others, think that herbicide resistant crops will lead to more chemicals being used on crops not less. Him and others says that the trait for herbicide resistance will spread to wild plant life and make weeds that are resistant to weed killer as well. If plants produce there own pesticides it will kill the good bugs as well as the bad ones. Also, with the pesticide everywhere in a crop, it will lead to a tolerance to the pesticide on the part of the bugs and they will eventually be immune to it. During pollination and with winds the pollen can spread from the GM crops to conventional and organic crops contaminating them. He wonders about the claims that GM crops are needed to feed the world's growing population. He thinks it is more a lack of money than a lack of food that is the problem. The representatives of 20 African states, including Ethiopia, have published a statement saying that GM crops will not help their farmers produce the food that will be needed in the 21 century. In fact, they think it will destroy the diversity, the local knowledge and the sustainable agricultural systems and undermine their capacity to feed themselves. He also wonders how the developers of all this technology are planning to make a profit from selling their product to the poorest parts of the world where they claim it is need the most. He feels i...
