I was now once more in bed and cure together with my neighbor a diarrheal disease. In shifts, we show the toilet during the breaks and he looks "Stromberg" and I read the mirror.
Yesterday, Joan and I and our second anniversary we have not, unfortunately, spent a nice trip but with Stromberg-looking. The right-date mirror Magazine we got from a German RTL reporter who filmed a documentary on us for the RTL-night journal, - purchased from the German-book store in Cape Town for the equivalent of more than six euros.
During my current reading phases I am on an article about genetic modification encountered by rice plants, where I was were raised a bio-child and former Waldorf students given pause for thought:
In the Philippines a major Genzüchter is currently quite successful in meeting the rice - the main staple food 1 in the world - the vitamin A artificially use: through genetic modification.
This rice will be crossed with local varieties of rice and carried into the third world because the people there get through the rice that they eat pretty much anything except vitamin A.
almost the entire third world suffers from vitamin A deficiency. The results: no Bone growth, blindness, immune suppression, death ... two million people die each year on vitamin A deficiency - is home to more than three times as many people as in Frankfurt / Main.
The "golden rice" which is by the provitamin A (copies of the maize plant) has become so yellow promises much: resistant to pests, ease of rearing and a food that the Third World not only tired but also makes healthy - so the researchers. "The Golden Rice divides the worlds, because it represents a basic conflict: between the hopes and the fears of the Third World ... between optimists, the nature want to improve, and Back-to-nature romanticism "
The North Indian son of a rice farmer Parminder Virk says to the concerns of the First World." People in Europe have enough to eat, they do not need golden rice. Why should they make serious efforts thoughts? You have in Europe but have no idea what people really need elsewhere, "while thousands of miles has further announced the Greenpeace staff in Hamburg Jan van Aken the Golden Rice the struggle.
His concern is that the rice over the years with the traditional rice varieties and crosses there are no white rice contains more ... and above all, who guarantee that the golden rice does not fail on a large area and therefore the most important staple food of the whole world is destroyed. Here again there is evidence, such as a test Genfeld where the rice had been checked after some time and received. It is important, it finds that one can do anything that you can not get a grip. However, the worries and doubts come not only from the rich, lush eaten countries of the West but also from poor countries like the Philippines. Medina, Farmer official and adviser of many thousands of rice farmers, says, not the vitamin-A deficiency is the biggest problem, but the whole poverty of the developing world itself, he trusts the American Corporations do not, so far every time the only enriched themselves and have exploited the people.
He does not right that the yellow rice should not benefit producers but consumers benefited. He also says it would need to receive vitamin A and fat, and it exists mainly in meat. But poor people are not even able to afford meat. "Golden rice has not been developed for the European market," said Medina. He was "the attempt by the North to solve the problems of the South".
"Are the people in the developing world, the guinea pigs for the First World". "
Can we fight the symptoms of poverty, as long as the causes can not be removed?
critics say that countries like the Philippines, vitamin A deficiency had been under control. It had already been given vitamin A tablets also can show people just how to grow vegetables and fruit in the garden at home. This being white rice in many Asian symbol of prosperity. "Hardly anyone would voluntarily eat yellow rice."
Nevertheless show scenarios of scientists that (pessimistic) by the new GM rice 5000-40000 (realistic) children to be saved could - in India alone. This is the cost of a human life just a few dollars.
Manila, the Philippines Haustadt. In the Tondo district Monico family lives next to the big garbage dump in the city. No running water, no toilet, no electricity, no food - they are on the soup kitchen of the Italian workers need. Father Joselito earned only 1.60 € a day, which barely pays for the rice, the children are malnourished ... all of them never got tablets from the government and they have a garden in a densely populated slum certainly not. has
"In the Philippines in the past Year, a campaign launched against GM rice. Greenpeace members distribute stickers, celebrities like Miss Philippines 2007 "promote the fact that restaurants are using only rice that has not genetically modified.
The Monicos have noticed nothing of this campaign. You have never been in a restaurant, the word gene tells them nothing, of Greenpeace, they have never heard of.
Would you eat rice, contains vitamins, even if the rice yellow? "We would eat everything," said Joselito Monico and looks at his wife. "No matter what color. Main thing to survive, we ""
(source.: Der Spiegel, No. 48/2008, 24.11.2008, p. 90)
It is advisable to really read the article too!
What shocked me about it is the arrogance with which we talk about topics such as Demeter, organic or genetic engineering.
The author of the original article Hauke Goos says: "The irritating to the conflict (is): The objections of the critics seem to be justified as good as the responses of the proponents, who listens to the arguments of both parties long enough eventually both that a way to the promise and the Apocalypse. "
This question is never answered in unison: Is a GM-free nature (without the risk of extinction of entire species of plants or the extinction of bees, etc.) is more important than the survival of a year of more than two million people?
misanthropy is because the thought that ere people have to die in our world, to prevent over-population and the impending doom of humanity.
It ought to be also fair to say, "Where are you, you terrorist, al Qaeda's and Osama bin Laden's? Kill us, our mothers and children, because we should actually also the worst of times drag, right? "
Krass, I find that our standard of living people actively seeking, and that, although it will always do so much good. And as organic consumers, or as an avowed opponents of genetic engineering causes one perhaps even worse than you actually want to prevent!
Anyone with vollgefressendem belly drags on genetic engineering only makes things worse just yet. Inaction is deadly, and that's true - literally.
genetic engineering is a double edged sword. If we are afraid of her, we need less in the fight against genetic engineering but participate fight for others, quick and effective solutions.
We make far too many things in the way that appear to be immense, without making the effort to develop something else. Economy, politics and every one of us even take something. But, unfortunately, is also exactly what the disaster, because this combination has worked very rare almost satisfactory, since everyone always leaves on the other.
Would we drink contaminated water, we were sick for lack of minerals and vitamins and we were really hungry - every one of us - we'd all be very different than the subject, think! - Each of us!
But - as they would be - that can, unfortunately, none of us really imagine.
Thank you for your interest and best wishes from a sick bed,
Freddie
