Betul,mas rahardjo, harapan manusia, terutama rakyat sangat kelaparan di Afrika yang selalu didera serangan hama, sangat mengulurkan tangan menanti hasil penterapan GMO ini dalam industri pertanian.
Disini ada dua golongan, yang masih sangat menentang, pertama golongan Greens yang mengkhawatirkan "penularan" dampak negatif dari bahan makanan yang dimodifikasi ke manusia dan turunannya. Dalam pemberlakuan methoda ini untuk manusia, juga fihak gereja keras menentangnya. Disini akidah Kristiani bertabrakan dengan perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan. Dilain fihak, perkembangan jumlah penduduk yang mengerikan ini, hanya dapat dihadapi dengan pelipatan industri pangan sesuai dengan perkembangan itu. Secara stapak demi setapak, Uni Europa membuka pintu untuk pemberlakuan methoda ini , misalnya untuk tanaman jagung dan kedelai. Mudah2an ini dibaktikan bagi kebaikan manusia, yang seperti mas katakan, anugerah Allah bagi kita. Akal. Salam RM D Hadinoto --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], rahardjo mustadjab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seandainya GMO (genetically modified organisms) > terbukti aman, dunia akan kecukupan pangan. Dan tanah > yang semula ladang, dapat ditanami pohon banyak, > sehingga erosi top soil dapat dihambat. Daun pohon > akan makan CO2 dalam proses photosynthesis dan > menghasilkan O2 yang dihirup oleh manusia. Lebih jauh, > berkurangnya CO2 diudara akan mengurangi efek rumah > kaca yang menyulut global warming. > > Saya percaya pada potensi manusia, yang salah satunya > adalah intelegensia, dan itu dipunyai oleh manusia > Indonesia termasuk Anda-anda. > > Selamat menunaikan ibadah Ramadhan besok atau lusa. > > Slam, > RM > > > GM seeds make their way into 25% of farmland > > NIDHI NATH SRINIVAS > > TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2004 > 01:32:38 AM ] > > NEW DELHI: It's been a creeping acquisition. > Genetically modified seeds are slowly but surely > taking over larger chunks of farm land across the > globe. For the first time, one out of every four > hectares in the world growing food, feed and fibre > crops is now using transgenic seeds. > > To put that milestone in perspective, around 750 > million acres, or one-third the total land area of > China, is now under GM crops. In India itself, the > area under Bt cotton has doubled within a year. By > next year, the world is expected to grow GM oilseeds, > cotton and maize on a whopping 100 million hectares. > > For GM seed companies, that would mean a cool $5 > billion or more in sales. And with an average annual > growth rate of 10%, GM usage is set to only increase > further as large food and feed processing companies > find they are meeting less resistance from consumers > and law-makers world-wide. > > In 2003, 55% of the 76 million hectares of soyabean > planted globally were transgenic, up from 51% in 2002. > Twenty-one percent of the 34 million hectares of > cotton were GM, up from 20% last year. > > The area planted to transgenic canola in 2003 was 16%, > up from 12% in 2002. Finally, of the 140 million > hectares of maize grown globally, 11% was GM in 2003 > equivalent to 15.5 million hectares, up substantially > from 9% or 12.4 million hectares in 2002. > > If the global areas (conventional and transgenic) of > these four principal GM crops are aggregated, the > total area is 272 million hectares of which 25%, up > from 22% in 2002, was transgenic in 2003. Thus, for > the first time one quarter of the aggregate area of > the four crops, totalling over one quarter billion > hectares is GM. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
