Chefs continue to
sign up to boycott GM food
ABC Rural -
Wednesday, 24/09/2008
More Australian chefs have signed an agreement to not use
genetically modified food, with
It follows a Newspoll study which
found 90 per cent of consumers want better labelling
of food products.
It is also prompted by the first commercial crops of GM food
in
Greenpeace's GM campaigner
Michelle Sheather says all food is derived from
animals that have been given GM stock feed.
"Well the real issue is there is no research," she
says.
"There's no research anywhere on the planet on human
health studies and the impacts on the gm food on human health.
"In Australia we have no health studies, on studies of
rats over a number of generations because if rats over 3 or 5 generations are
fed g-m foods the evidence would be much stronger than over a one generation of
trial."
Dr TJ Higgins from the CSIRO's Plant Industries disagrees.
He says Greenpeace is picking up on studies that haven't
been peer reviewed and the next five years will see the release of drought
tolerant gm crops that are safe to eat.
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