GMOIreland

As someone who gets quite a number of questions on GM issues from folks in Africa and Asia I get to see and hear some of the more extreme disinformation and scare mongering that goes on. Last year in the Philippines there was the terrible attempt by Greenpeace to say GM crops caused miscarriages HERE. More recently from India we have had folks promulgating yet more scare...

"Devinder Sharma, food policy analyst and columnist, said GM foods were known to have caused allergy, respiratory and intestinal problems and kidney diseases in humans." The Hindu, March, 20, 2009 see HERE

Of course this is not true, GM food have never been confirmed to have caused any such impacts in humans. I think I will start offering an annual prize for the most extreme/erroneous scare attempt on GM.....

I always liked Italy - the food, the climate, and especially the passionate people. In fact, Italy was the first (and only) place I have seen anti-GM graffiti....(similar to the above but with a big NON added)

As a result, I was interested to come across an Italian newspaper citing one of our published GM policy research papers. I have no idea if the newspaper is a large, small, liberal or conservative. Anyway from my very bad Italian I think they liked the research...the article is HERE

nice to know that the Italian for our department is "dipartimento di Biochimica e Bioscienza"

those interested in a useful, dynamic info source on GM in Italian see <http://biotecnologiebastabugie.blogspot.com