Canberra a green island

I’d say they’re lumped together because while technically possible, the market for Organically-grown-but-genetically-modified food is probably close to non-existent. Not to mention that the most widely grown GM food crops are modified for pesticide resistance, hardly an advantage if you’re using “organic farming” methods.

so they’re not mutually exclusive?

‘Organic’ and ‘GM’ are mutually exclusive. (That is, you can have GM foods which have been organically grown.) The two issues are separate, although green groups and activists seem keen on lumping them together.

I agree with sepi’s comment “not for nor against”. In a consumer market such choices should be made available to anyone who may want to purchase a GM food product, however my concern is how would this effect the availability of organically produced food? & how effectively would GM products be regulated?

Maybe you should read the article before going off half-cocked, shauno. The idea is about asking NSW not to plant GM crops within some distance of the ACT border, although she’s lost me somewhat with the reasoning about pesticide-resistant weeds?

How the hell can Canberra be a buffer zone? We don’t grow crops in Canberra and every thing we eat is imported. So well have to either starve or search the land for any food not GM. Fairly hard thing to do these days especially imports.

It might work but at the cost of 10 times your grocery bill and shutting down quiet a few of Canberra’s Restaurants. Yep another great idea from the greens.

My cousins were never genetically modified. I fail to see the relevance.

Maybe the GM corn will do them in.
Pregnant mice that ate it had stillborn or sterile pups.

Maybe the Cane Toads can be genetically modified to eat themselves?

Cane toad – scientific ‘improvement’ introduced to help farmers. Unable to be reversed.

Replace Cane Toad with GM Canola – rinse and repeat.

Buffer zones will work as efficiently as the old lines drawn on the carpet in pubs/clubs to differentiate between smoking/smoke-free areas.

And wtf has GM canola to do with my feral cousins?

So where does the GMO DMZ go, is it going to be in the ACT or in NSW? And how wide does the DMZ have to be?

I think GM food is a massive mistake.

It is very short sighted to allow it to be grown in Australia – and undemocratic – lots of people and farmers don’t want it, but we had no say in the matter.

And once it is here, and turns out to be a massive mistake there is no getting rid of it.

Cane Toads anyone??