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Bill Gates finances research project to improve corn yields
Billionaire computer magnate Bill Gates is to fund a €8m research project into whether cereal crops can be genetically engineered with nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Read full article
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Aug 11th, 2012 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“It's horrible, just horrible”.
“Don't look darling”.
It might be worth pointing out that the hand is holding a legume root with nodules rich in nitrogen-fixing bacteria [but I guess we all knew that, really].
Considering the options and the overseas research associations available, England is a strange place to do this research.
John Innes is as poorly defended against the anti-GM 'extremists' as was Rothamsted, where scientists and their GM research programmes suffered greatly at their hands.
In four words: I don't trust Gates.
Aug 11th, 2012 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#2 Funny that, for someone as pro-capitalist as you! Is it because he DOESN'T keep all his money to himself?!
Aug 11th, 2012 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0GMO= God Move OVER food.
Aug 12th, 2012 - 03:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bill Gates is a jerk, anti capitalist (he would be nobody without his dad's big goverment worker for DARPA) and is a known eugenicists, just like his father who also was a member of “planned parenthood” and fanboy of margaret singer and sicko darwin (Geof's hero).
Sorry, Fido, about my support for the cult of evolution.
Aug 12th, 2012 - 08:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am also in favour of helping it along a bit .... you know, plant and animal breeding like Mendel did with his peas.
It's nice to know that Mendel's humble legume can be used to bring food to the third world by 'help it along a bit'.
Instead of funding research on how to provide more food, Mr Gates should provide funding on how to educate and limit people to produce LESS PEOPLE!!!
Aug 12th, 2012 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0David Attenborough and many other eminent scientists have all confirmed that the planet will not e able to support a population of 10 billion by the end of this century and that wars will probably break out over supply of food and water (rather than oil) if population growth continues to accelerate without limits.
“ Mr Gates should provide funding on how to educate and limit people to produce LESS PEOPLE!!!”
Aug 12th, 2012 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why would he waste his money. It's just not going to happen.
And why should he not fund ways of producing more food? DO you think its impossible or just undesirable?! Btw Attenborough is a TV presenter not a scientist!
Aug 12th, 2012 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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