Nobel Laureates Supporting GMO Technology for Global Food Security

142 Nobel Laureates, including Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell, emphasize the safety and importance of GMO technology in addressing global food insecurity. They urge organizations like Greenpeace to recognize the benefits of genetically modified crops for the developing world. The laureates stress the significance of precision agriculture in enhancing food production and nutritional value, advocating for scientific honesty and support for GMO technology as a means to combat hunger and improve agriculture globally.

• Nobel Laureates
• GMO Technology
• Global Food Security
• Precision Agriculture
• Greenpeace

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1. 142 Nobel Laureates support AMG Richard J. Roberts Governors of ICGEB, 22 MayNd 2019

2. Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell Discoverers of the transformation of the Plasmid Ti together with Mary Dell Chilton

3. Remember that for the 800 million who go to bed hungry at night FOOD IS MEDICINE

4. Nobel Prizes call for scientific honesty on GMOs Conceived in December 2013 Planned during 2014-2015 Formal organization initiated in July 2015 Released June 30Th, 2016 We ask the green parts to stop scaring the public by pretending that GMO food should be banned because they are dangerous.

5. 142 Nobel laureates have written an open letter to Greenpeace and all United Nations Ambassadors urging it to be summarized that GMO technology is basically safe and must be supported by the good of the developing world, which they desperately need best production crops with nutritional value. http://supportprecisionagriculture.org/

6. Food means Agriculture For 10-12,000 years we had been using crude genetics But in the 1980s we learned to be precise

8. 'This is for sure! "This is dangerous!" Greenpeace says

9. Traditional methods versus precision methods I want to move a GPS system from my old car to my new Should I disassemble two cars, mix the parts and then "select" for the one who has the GPS, ignoring what else I could have picked up? Or should I take the GPS from one car and move it to the other?

10. Traditional methods versus precision methods If I take a GPS from a plane Will the new car fly?

11. Genetic Modification refers to a method But the important thing is the producto not the Method This is just as true for traditional breeding

12. Plants can't escape predators So how do they protect themselves? With pesticides!

13. Many common vegetables have high levels of natural pesticides. + 11 more

14. Food in developing countries Africa, S. America, Asia need better crops with higher yields. They need the products of precision breeding Europe does not So why doesn't Europe back it? Could it be politics, money or both?

15. The real problem Europeans didn't want American companies to control their food How can you prevent that? Ban Monsanto and the other big American agribusiness Not so fast - farmers buy their seeds from them

16. The Green Parties' solution Claim that precision breeding Could be dangerous! Politicians and green parties will protect of this risk by banning Increased Gmo Best of all This has no economic consequences for Europe !

17. The tragic consequences Unhappy to block precision agriculture in Europe, many politicians and NGOs such as "Greenpeace" and "Friends of the Earth" are now spreading their message to developing countries

18. A case study Vitamin A deficiency Global population mortality (in millions) Vitamin A-Deficiency 1.9-2.7 HIV/AIDS 1.7 Tuberculosis 1.4 malaria 0.75 *Courtesy of Ingo Potrykus

19. Golden Rice A new source of vitamin A Ingo Potrykus, ETH Zurich Peter Beyer, U. Freiburg Courtesy of Ingo Potrykus

20. Golden Rice It became a reality in February 1999. He could have been in the field in 2-5 years, starting to save children from blindness and death. But it's a "OMG and only now will it soon be available in Bangladesh. Why? Multiple years of delay due to regulation and opposition. Courtesy of Ingo Potrykus

21. Science Fiction Greenpeace blocks development And then he claims It's taken so long that it can't work

22. Since 2002, 15 million children have died or suffered from vitamin A deficiency How many must die before considering this a "crime against humanity" that should be prosecuted?

23. The banana problem Xanthomonas Wilt No natural variety is resistant so it is not traditional breeding solution But Sweet pepper is resistant to Xanthomonas campestris and two genes are known that mediate this resistance. Using precision techniques, these genes have been transferred to bananas and these modified bananas are starting field trials.

25. Bangladesh: Bt Eggplant Slide courtesy of Arif Hossain/Cornell Alliance for Science

26. Hawaiian Papayas Almost a disaster

27. OMG Papaya saves Hawaiian harvest In the 1990s, Hawaiian papaya trees were plagued by ring stain virus that decimated half the harvest in the state. In 1998, Dennis Gonzales of the University of Hawaii developed a transgenic fruit called rainbow papaya, which is resistant to the virus. Now 77 percent of the crop Hawaii is genetically engineered and eaten in the U.S. But in Thailand this solution is forbidden

28. Food choice is a luxury of the developed world If you don't want to eat foods derived from genetically modified techniques, then don't. It's your choice But no Pretend such foods son Dangerous If anything, They are probably safer than traditional foods

29. Scientific data paraca Developed countries is not a problem. We must never forget the consequences of our actions for the Development Countries We need more science in politics And less politics in science

30. Actions needed around the world Politicians should listen to the scientists they fund Stop supporting the idea that food produced by precision reproduction methods should be inherently more dangerous than traditional methods, when science shows that they are not

31. Civil society must also play its part Top religious leaders should talk Groups such as Rotary Clubs must Influential celebrities must speak out The media must present scientific facts No science fiction

32. CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE SACRAMENTS Prot. N. 320/17 Circular letter to bishops on bread and wine for the Eucharist . . . . 5. The Congregation itself also decided that Eucharistic matter genetically modified organisms it can be considered a valid matter (cf. Letter to the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, 9 December 2013, Prot. N. 89/78 44897).

33. Ghana News: The former leader of the Farmers' Association, Ghana's leading group of anti-GMO farmers, has switched sides to adopt a pro- GMO position. Mohammed Adams Nasiru attributed its change to receiving accurate information on agricultural biotechnology from the scientific community.

34. Having a heart The Non-OMG is a Western indulgence of the rich Doesn't work for Africa's poor http://supportprecisionagriculture.org/