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O  It is good for large transnational corporations and industrialized countries and bad for
indigenous people, peasants, and small farmers
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e applications eiter ad little success or are still in infancy
3  roponents ave wrong assumption tat industrial agriculture (turning farms into
factories troug te extensive use of fossil fuels, cemicals, syntetic fertilizers,
extreme mecanization) is necessary and good
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e sole aim of te production agriculture is te mass production of commodities
5 
ecnology is not a neutral tool, but reflects power distribution in tis world and te
coices made in te past by different cultures, communities and societies
6  griculture market for commodities and cas crops for export to te affluent world
undermine local farming communities and markets
7   contaminates te traditional crops (and see sources) and te ig biodiversity of
local farms
8  iotecnology is an expression of product of a very particular culture and time
9  ood sovereignty is now able to be removed from te community and located in te
ands of tecnologists and large corporation
O  is an expression of a monoculture tat assumes nature to be alien, stingy,
deficient and in need to control\
OO overnment agencies are violating teir religious and consumer rigts
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cience is in grave danger of being reduced to a production tecnique
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cience as also become a political tool in te ands of commercial interests
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mall scale farmers in many parts of te world are concerned about te  for taking
over of control of seeds and indeed te wole food cycle, wile exploiting teir
traditional knowledge and genetic information of teir own bodies
O5 ood aid is used to furter political and economic interests
O6 nce te region as become genetically contaminated troug food aid, it will
weaken tat nation¶s ability and will to establis a rigorous regulatory framework tat
protects agriculture in terms of its organic integrity and terefore its export
possibilities
O7 enetic engineering becomes a treat to biodiversity
O8  is applied to a level of functioning in nature for wic our scientific
understanding is still insufficient
erefore, precaution sould be te rule, since
consequence so  in nature is irreversible  migt be a scientific adventure wic
could lead us into more problems we ave not even begun to anticipate


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O  conomic and social benefits of  far outweig any possible negative
consequences
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olve te world unger problem
  iotecnology and  is a natural advance on te green revolution
 
afe, ealty, nutritious
C  Ceap
D  fficient
3   is safe
  Current gene modification tecniques are no more or less safe tan traditional
metods of breeding crops
 
ere is noting intrinsic to te process of  by te production of transgenic
organisms tat makes tem unsafe
 C  o teory or set teories tat contradicts te generally accepted conclusion tat
 is safe
ere is no single case of illness due to  and te claim is all
ideologically driven, lacking a factual basis
4 It is morally unacceptable to deny starving people safe food produced troug 
5 elps environment
  o ecological teory tat supports te idea of wild plants acquiring a trangene
and ten wrecking avoc in a natural community
  lenty of natural plants ± invasive plants ± play suc role
C  Development of crop agriculture and domestication of animals remained
extremely negative for te survival of biodiversity; te cleaner te agricutlrue,
te worse for biodiversity
D 
e less land tat can be cultivated for an equivalent amount of production, te
better for te survival of biodiversity in adjacent areas
  oting is more destructive to biodiversity tan wide-spread, low-yield,
traditional metods of agriculture
 
maller amount of pesticides are applies, so te survival of biodiversity will be
enanced
  If alf te crops turn to , te pollution will be greatly reduced
  eed control is more effective
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raditional farming is inefficient
  se of unsuitable tecnologies as resulted in te loss of 2  of arable land
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e protest is emotional, personal and political