Comments on: Producers saying no to genetically engineered wheat http://www.aglines.com/2009/06/producers-saying-no-to-genetically-engineered-wheat/ agriculture * food * energy * environment Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Phillip Huggan http://www.aglines.com/2009/06/producers-saying-no-to-genetically-engineered-wheat/comment-page-1/#comment-298 Phillip Huggan Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:24:19 +0000 http://www.aglines.com/?p=290#comment-298 It looks like a type of GMO potatoes cause Swine Flu: http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/7227/54 Only USA, Canada, UK, Auzzies, and Chile produce these potatoes. Everyone missed the Chile case signal I suspect because everyone assumed case reporting assymetries. French fry consumption is also correlated with modern health services economies... 1) If true this swings the pendulum in favour of *extensive* GMO labelling and EU's prudent stand on GMOs now looks defensible. The Prince was right about organic farming. 2) You'd want to not feed these potatoes to pigs and birds especially, and probably other animals. A diet of these potatoes may even be the source of the outbreak in a Mexican pig farm. 3) Don't plant this strain next year and consider abandoning potatoes in the ground now (maybe can be frozen until flu subsides but I doubt it). 4) Pull these potatoes and issue recalls in all areas where bird flu cases have been reported. Same for regions where immediate starvation/malnutrition isn't threatened. Work to remove from other regions ASAP. It looks like a type of GMO potatoes cause Swine Flu: http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/7227/54
Only USA, Canada, UK, Auzzies, and Chile produce these potatoes. Everyone missed the Chile case signal I suspect because everyone assumed case reporting assymetries. French fry consumption is also correlated with modern health services economies…

1) If true this swings the pendulum in favour of *extensive* GMO labelling and EU’s prudent stand on GMOs now looks defensible. The Prince was right about organic farming.
2) You’d want to not feed these potatoes to pigs and birds especially, and probably other animals. A diet of these potatoes may even be the source of the outbreak in a Mexican pig farm.
3) Don’t plant this strain next year and consider abandoning potatoes in the ground now (maybe can be frozen until flu subsides but I doubt it).
4) Pull these potatoes and issue recalls in all areas where bird flu cases have been reported. Same for regions where immediate starvation/malnutrition isn’t threatened. Work to remove from other regions ASAP.

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