Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose
meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease
human suffering on our
warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.
As has been the case for recent COPs, commentators about achievements at COP - 17 are split on whether these negotiations accomplished some important positive steps toward an eventual
meaningful global solution to climate change or whether Durban must be understood as another tragic international failure to come up with an adequate solution to the immense threat of
human - induced
warming.