Apropos H N Ramakrishna's letter "Demystifying GM" (April 29), all the three mentioned, Michael Antoniou, John Fagan and Claire Robinson, are card-carrying members of the anti-GM brigade. Robinson is not even a scientist and is a rabid anti-GM activist who operates an anti-GM propaganda outfit, GM Watch. Antoniou and Fagan had long ago abandoned mainstream "science", and have now thrown themselves into anti-GM activism. Fagan founded a private company called Genetic ID to offer GMO detection services that many seek owing to the fear created by the anti-GM activism that people like him carry out around the world. One could do well by reading GM plants literature available on the internet, and visiting the websites of the leading academies of sciences in the US, India, Brazil, the Royal Society of the UK, as well as the World Health Organisation, the United Nations' Food And Agricultural Organisation, the European Food Safety Authority, the US Food and Drug Administration and many other rigorously, scientifically peer-reviewed publications in outstanding scientific journals, to see the kind of quality science there is in support of GM crops.
Shanthu Shantharam
Professor, Seed Science Center and
Biosafety Institute for the Genetically
Engineered Agricultural Products
(BIGMAP), Iowa State University, USA
(Further correspondence on this issue is now closed - Editor)
Professor, Seed Science Center and
Biosafety Institute for the Genetically
Engineered Agricultural Products
(BIGMAP), Iowa State University, USA
(Further correspondence on this issue is now closed - Editor)
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