Ananthoo of ReStore Chennai has been part of the Kisan Swaraj Yatra, travelling from Sabarmathi on the 2nd October, 2010 to Rajghat in December 2010. He has traversed through several states and met many organic farmers, sustainable agriculture initiatives and institutions.
Safe Food Alliance, Chennai is organizing a meeting on the 9th, January, 2011 to felicitate Ananthoo, to listen to him share his experiences and also to make plans for promoting sustainable agriculture and safe food in the State for the year ahead.
The meeting will be between 3-5 p.m. The venue for the meeting will be Ma Foi Centre, (2nd floor waiting hall), 309, Poonamallee High Road, Chennai. Directions to the venue: The building is close to Pachayappas College, on top of the Maruti car show room.
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So far, the activists talk about GM food only on the basis of Agri-economy (such as the opposition to bt-Brinjal. They have NO and I mean ZERO scientific evidence to prove GM foods are biologically unsafe - just evidential anecdotes of few cases from here and there.
More harm is done by our farmers using artificial ripening agents like Calcium Carbide than bt-Brinjal.
The claim that "Transgenic DNA in food taken up by bacteria in human gut" and cite some experimental evidence that transgenic DNA from plants has been taken up by bacteria in the soil and in the gut of human volunteers. The claim then goes on to say that antibiotic resistance marker genes can spread from transgenic food to pathogenic bacteria, making infections very difficult to treat.
FACTS: There is ZERO EVIDENCE to support concerns that functional genes might be taken up from food, transgenic or otherwise, by bacteria in soil or the human digestive tract. Even if the antibiotic marker genes occasionally used in early biotech crops were so absorbed, they would not even be detectable against the pre-existing background of antibiotic resistance genes found widely in human intestinal flora. There is a strong consensus among medical experts in microbial antibiotic resistance that the clinical problems of antibiotic resistance stem from medical or patient mishandling of antibiotics, to which the mechanics of agricultural biotechnology are wholly irrelevant.
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