Mwy am bwydydd GM

[Madrwyddygryf]

Ar ol blynyddoedd o ffreuo gan y grwpiau amgylchedd mae'n edrych fel bod llawer o'r scaremongering sydd wedi'w greu ganddynt wedi dod i ddim byd.

Mae'r grwp o wyddonwyr wedi rhyddhau gwybodaeth yn dangos nad oes unrhyw dystiolaeth yn dangos bod bwydydd GM yn effeithio ar y amgylchedd yn negyddol.

Mae yn syniad da iawn ar gyfer bwydydd GM. Fy marn mhersonol yw bod y technoleg yn gallu helpu y byd yn yr hir dymor ond mae'r llawer o'r gwaith caled wedi'w ddinistrio gan grwpiau amgylchedd sydd yn meddwl bod nhw'n gwybod yn well.

[Garnet Bowen]

Mae yn syniad da iawn ar gyfer bwydydd GM. Fy marn mhersonol yw bod y technoleg yn gallu helpu y byd yn yr hir dymor ond mae'r llawer o'r gwaith caled wedi'w ddinistrio gan grwpiau amgylchedd sydd yn meddwl bod nhw'n gwybod yn well.

Mae 'na lot o gam-ddealltwriaeth ar y ddwy ochr ynglyn a bwydydd GM. Dwi ddim yn gwrthwynebu i'r syniad o GM, ond mi ydw i'n bryderus ynglyn a'r modd y mae'r dechnoleg yn cael ei ddefnyddio. Ar hyn o bryd, mae cwmniau Biotech, megis Monsanto, yn gweithio i ddatblygu technoleg bwyd fydd yn rhoi mantais iddyn nhw yn y farchnad fyd eang, ar draul buddianau ffermwyr cyffredin, yn enwedig yn y Trydydd Byd.

[Dylan]

Mae 'na lot o gam-ddealltwriaeth ar y ddwy ochr ynglyn a bwydydd GM. Dwi ddim yn gwrthwynebu i'r syniad o GM, ond mi ydw i'n bryderus ynglyn a'r modd y mae'r dechnoleg yn cael ei ddefnyddio. Ar hyn o bryd, mae cwmniau Biotech, megis Monsanto, yn gweithio i ddatblygu technoleg bwyd fydd yn rhoi mantais iddyn nhw yn y farchnad fyd eang, ar draul buddianau ffermwyr cyffredin, yn enwedig yn y Trydydd Byd.

Yn hollol.

Mae yna lawer gormod o gyffredinoli yn digwydd ar y naill ochr hefyd. Mae'n amhosibl dweud "mae GM yn ddrwg i gyd" neu "yn dda i gyd". Rhaid beirniadu pob achos yn unigol.

[Cardi Bach]

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Yn hollol.

Mae yna lawer gormod o gyffredinoli yn digwydd ar y naill ochr hefyd. Mae'n amhosibl dweud "mae GM yn ddrwg i gyd" neu "yn dda i gyd". Rhaid beirniadu pob achos yn unigol.

Ma hynny'n swno'n ddigon teg, ond nid dyna sydd am ddigwydd. Yn un peth ma'r llywodraeth yn argymell datblygu cnydau GM ar lefel eang, ac yn ail, oherwydd natur, bydd cnydau GM yn effeithio ar gnydau nad sy'n GM. felly dyw e ddim yn bosib beirniadu pob un yn unigol. Unwaith mae nhw'n caniatau GM, yna lle mae tynnu'r llinell wedi hynny?

Mae adroddiad arall wned yn ddiweddar yn dangos, ar ol sawl blwyddyn (8 wy'n credu) fod mewn gwirionedd angen MWY o pesticides ar gnydau GM.

[Geraint]

Dwi ddim yn gwbod y ffeithiau i gyd, ond fy nheimlad i yw fy mod hollol yn erbyn hyn, ma rhestr fawr o blanhigion gwyllt cynhenid i'r wald yma wedi diflannu, neu yn brysur diflannu, a ma unrhyw gystadeluaeth fel hyn yn mynd i wneud pethau'n waeth. Os da chi'n hoff o fywyd gwyllt mewn unrhyw ffordd ddylse chi fod yn erbyn GM, mae'n fygythiad, a mae'r effaith ar blanhigion yn lledu i'r pryfed, adar ac anfaeiliad sy'n byw arnynt, gan effeithio'r holl ecostystem. Hefyd, dwi ddim cweit yn deall rhywbeth i gynyddu cynhyrch, pan ma'r llywodraeth yn brysur lleihau pwysigrydd amaethyddiaeth yn y wlad ma. Ac os da ni'n cynnal profiau ar gyfer gwledydd 3ydd byd, pam gwneud nhw yn y wlad yma?

[Dr Gwion Larsen]

Ar ol blynyddoedd o ffreuo gan y grwpiau amgylchedd mae'n edrych fel bod llawer o'r scaremongering sydd wedi'w greu ganddynt wedi dod i ddim byd.

Mae'r grwp o wyddonwyr wedi rhyddhau gwybodaeth yn dangos nad oes unrhyw dystiolaeth yn dangos bod bwydydd GM yn effeithio ar y amgylchedd yn negyddol.

Fel y dywedodd y llywodraeth erstalwm am sigarenau! Ond os ydych am chwara gydag natur ma'r result yn tragic! Ond ar y llaw arall man shwr bo fydd gynnach chi ddewis os i'w brynnu ne ddim

[Geraint]

Jyst ffordd o wneud arian i'r cwmnioedd mawr ma ydi o. Yr un ffordd a cwmniau moddion, sy'n cadw prisiau'n uchel fel bo pobl 3ydd methu fforddio nhw. Mae on folocs llwyr. A ma'r byd yn cynhyrchu digon o fwyd, ,mae angen ei ddosbarthu'n well.

[Cardi Bach]

Trwy rinwedd fy ngwaith fi wedi bod yn delio gyda gwyddonydd sydd yn adnabyddus yn y maes ar y pwnc yma, ac yn cael ei barchu.

Mae e wedi sgwennu rhai pwyntiau am beryglon GM.

Dyma ei gasgliadau:

I am seeking to raise awareness in the National Assembly and among the People of Wales of the extreme dangers posed by GM (Genetic Modification) as proven by unpublicized episodes in the United States. Furthermore, we must comprehend the the crucial link between GM and the subversive patents on living organisms (life-forms, life). These are two Frankensteinian developments for which the United States has been the dark laboratory.

1. GM is an unnecessary, uncontrollable, monopolistic, nightmare technology that menaces human health due to risks of hidden allergens, increased use of pesticides & herbicides, antibiotic ineffectiveness against disease, and, especially, the production of strange toxins from gene-spliced viruses, bacteria, etc. The numerous reports in the United States of allergic reactions to GM-maize, including life-threatening shock, should serve as a warning. Not to mention those who died (hundred) or were crippled (thousands) after taking a GM-food supplement (tryptophan) and GM-insulin.
[Supporting references: see Google search: "GM tryptophan, EMS", esp. entries "The Thalidomide of Genetic Engineering" by the Institute for Science in Society (London), and "Tryptophan and EMS: The Skeleton in the GMO Closet"; also Dr. John B. Fagan's report, "Tryptophan Summary"// GM insulin: Macleans news magazine, Toronto, Canada, 30 September 2002 and Google search "Society for Diabetic Rights, Canada"// GM maize: International Herald Tribune 20 March 2001, "Allergic Reactions Trigger a Sober look at Biotech Foods"; and contact Friends of the Earth for a detailed report)

2. GM promises to wipe out entire animal & plant species, as studies show that butterflies and bees die in droves after feeding on GM pollen. In reference to UK crops trials, The Times (21 October 2003) reports that "GM oilseed rape and GM beet had the potential to damage wildlife and the environment and to lead to a loss of farmland birds and butterflies."

3. GM contamination has already wiped out the entire organic oilseed rape sector in Saskatchewan province, Canada. Saskatchewan is four times the size of Great Britain. And planet-wide contamination is inevitable (and irreversible), unless stopped soon.

4. No insurance company in the world will underwrite GM technology. What does this tell you of its safety?

5. No benefits come to us from GM (aptly coined "Frankenstein") food & crops. The benefits all go to a handful of giant multinational corporations that will be able to monopolize the world food supply (due to patents on life-forms), dictating the prices of food. They will be able to charge whatever they want.

6. Corporations can lay claim to whatever has become contaminated. "How is this possible?" you ask Shouldn't they pay damages for contaminated crops and land? This is where patents on life-forms come in. In a fairly-recent perversion of U.S. patent law, corporations have been allowed to own patents (conferring monopoly rights) on living organisms (seeds, plants, animals. human body parts, micro-organisms, living processes, even genes). So, the perpetrator's's contamination of other's property equals "misappropriation of technology" by the victim.

7. In other words, GM is a gigantic corporate swindle with horrifying consequences to us and our world. And the GM swindle is only made possible by patents on life-forms.

8. In addition to GM contamination and handcuffing GM contracts that tie farmers in knots, these unconscionable patents on living organisms are being exploited by giant multinational corporations to monopolize the food crops (and medicinal crops) of the planet. They threaten serfdom and ruin of farming populations around the world, and of associated tradesmen. Again let me stress the corporate ability to dictate global food prices.

9. Six multinationals -- chemical-drug-biotech giants -- hold over 600 patents on staple food crops (wheat, rice, maize, soya, etc.). Understand that patents have been a powerful Cartel tool since the 1930s and 40s, wielded then by many of the same corporations that are wielding them now.
[Item: approximately 2/3 of patented products are never produced. Patents are employed to sew up markets and set high prices. Recommendation: Patent law should be redefined and sharply limited, the vast majority of patents instantly abolished.]

10. The British Medical Association is concerned about patents on life stifling research and limiting or even dictating or denying medical treatment.
1.4 billion farmers are even more vitally concerned, especially poor family farmers in the Third World. They face an imminent reality of having to pay corporate licensing and other fees for growing and trading in crops their families and societies have grown for centuries.
I stress again, this spells serfdom and ruin.

11. Already, Third World markets to the United States are being closed off, and farmers in the U.S. ordered to stop growing crops to avoid (alleged) patent infringement. When American importers and farmers continue their trades nonetheless, they can be -- and have been -- sued by the corporate patentholder, involviing them in the American legal system which has become increasingly the preserve of The Rich.

12. Third World farmers and businesses are forced to pay astronomical U.S. legal fees even to challenge these patents on living organisms. As the notorious case of Basmati rice has shown, perhaps only a government or powerful institution has the resources to mount a plausible challenge.
Pakistani farmers of Basmati gave up when American lawyers demanded a downpayment of £300,000 to begin the process. The government of India eventually stepped in, and earned only a paertial victory.

13. Enola bean -- Observe an example of how this business operates, the case of the Enola bean of Mexico. This yellow bean has been a traditional favorite in the Mexican national diet, providing myriads of small family farmers a livelihood from domestic consumption and export trade to the United States. The president of an American seed-corporation flew to Mexico, brought back some of the beans with him, planted them in his greenhouse and later took the grown plants to the obliging U.S. Patent Office, receiving a patent on the Mexican yellow bean.
This allowed the corporation to close off all imports of the Enola bean to the United states, and stop farmers in the U.S. from growing and selling it as they had -- unless they paid for licensing, which need not be granted.
The last I heard, this was being challenged from various quarters -- a process that will cost them a fortune.

14. Governments in the Third World are at this moment under pressure from the U.S. government and corporate-dominated WTO to accept unqualified global patenting. This will destroy freedoms of farming populations and businesses -- and national governments -- throughout the globe. (i.e. globalization!!)

15. Patents mean high prices paid to profit-driven corporations for materials and products that most often should be in the public domain and open to all. The broader the sweep of patents on living organisms, the more are commodities withheld from peoples who have utilized them since time immemorial. The free and the affordable now become Corporate property.

16. Thousands of patents are now held by corporations on Agriculture, and millions of them on genes. This constitutes the 21st century's gravest threat to Liberty, to social and economic Justice, and to plain Decency.

16. There is only one Solution to all this evil -- Outlaw patents on living organisms.

17. What Exactly Can We Do to outlaw patents on living organisms? Please devote a little spare time (perhaps a couple of hours a week), each&every week as part of an ethical life-style, to doing a bit of the following:

(1) Call & write Assembly Members (Wales) and MPs, insisting that they propose & pass a Resolution and a Law banning patents on living organisms.
(You can mention to the Assembly Members that they have the constitutional obligation of "Sustainable Development", and the responsiibility to protect the health of the community.)
(2) Call & write communications media -- newspapers, radio, TV -- insisting that GM and patents on living organisms be outlawed.
(3) Tell your family, friends, associates about this, and ask them to do the same.

Let us educate each other, and publicly advocate this vital, vital Cause. Only a grassroots democratic response of education & advocacy can overcome the Money Politics underlying patents on living organisms and GM.

Mae rhagor o'i waith gennyf. Os am ei gael cysylltwch a fi drwy neges breifat.[/quote]

[mred]

Mae llawer o fathau/rhywogaethau/amrywiadau cynhenid, lleol cnydau yn cael eu colli, rhai sydd wedi'u datblygu gan amaethwyr dros y canrifoedd a sydd wedi'u haddasu i bob math o amgylchiadau hinsoddol, daearyddol ayb. lleol. Pam nad ydi pwyslais gwyddonwyr ar geisio arbed y rhain rhag cael eu colli? Onid y gwir ydi mai cwmnïau mawrion megis Monsanto sydd yn ariannu eu hymchwil bellach, a bod rhaid i'w hymchwil fod â'r amcan sylfaenol o facsimeiddio elw i'r corfforaethau. Drwy gael monopoli/patent ar yr hâd y digwydd hyn, a dyma pam mai cnydau GM sy'n cael eu gwthio ganddynt. Mantais arall i gnydau lleol ydi fod heintiau hefyd yn tueddu i fod yn lleol, ac na cheir cnydau ardaloedd helaeth yn cael eu difa, fel sydd wedi digwydd yn yr U.D.