http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/biote ... -1.3057350
Link zum genannten Brief:109 Nobelpreisträger aus verschiedenen Disziplinen haben sich in einem offenen Brief für den Einsatz der Grünen Gentechnik ausgesprochen, um die Welternährung zu sichern. Die Umweltauswirkungen von gentechnisch veränderten Pflanzen seien gering, der Verzehr der Lebensmittel sicher. In dem Dokument greifen die Wissenschaftler vor allem die Umweltorganisation Greenpeace an. Die Umweltschützer hätten wiederholt Fakten geleugnet, Risiken falsch dargestellt und sich gegen Innovationen in der Landwirtschaft gestellt. Angesichts weitverbreiteter Mangelernährung in Entwicklungsländern werfen die Nobelpreisträger die Frage auf, ob sich manche Gegner der Gentechnologie eines "Verbrechens gegen die Menschlichkeit" schuldig machen.
http://supportprecisionagriculture.org/ ... r_rjr.html
Noch ein guter Beitrag zum selben Thema:Organizations opposed to modern plant breeding, with Greenpeace at their lead, have repeatedly denied these facts and opposed biotechnological innovations in agriculture. They have misrepresented their risks, benefits, and impacts, and supported the criminal destruction of approved field trials and research projects.
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Scientific and regulatory agencies around the world have repeatedly and consistently found crops and foods improved through biotechnology to be as safe as, if not safer than those derived from any other method of production. There has never been a single confirmed case of a negative health outcome for humans or animals from their consumption.
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Opposition based on emotion and dogma contradicted by data must be stopped.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles. ... reenpeace/
Aber was wissen schon die Nobelpreisträger, wenn schon Kinder in der Volksschule indoktriniert werden dass 'Gentechnik' per se schlecht ist ...More than 100 Nobel Prize-winning researchers are calling out environmental group Greenpeace for its opposition to the development of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.
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Richard Roberts, chief scientific officer of New England Biolabs and cowinner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on introns, spearheaded the letter-writing campaign. “We’re scientists. We understand the logic of science. It’s easy to see what Greenpeace is doing is damaging and is anti-science,” Roberts told The Washington Post. “Greenpeace initially, and then some of their allies, deliberately went out of their way to scare people. It was a way for them to raise money for their cause.”