Sanjeev Sabhlok's Blog, page 87
June 15, 2019
Shetkari Sanghatana’s demands for GM technology have been known for 20 years
Why is the GOI so deaf to the farmers? In 2002 Sharad Joshi had compared the Bt cotton approval to the “fall of the Berlin Wall” – premature. https://www.newscientist.com/article/... https://www.newscientist.com/article/... Shetkari’s demand for GM has been widely known for 20 years. Why is the GOI deaf to the farmers? Download demands at: http://bit.ly/2IhQ0Qa Farmers have protested […]
June 14, 2019
What the IB said about FOREIGN FUNDED Vandana Shiva and Kavitha Kuruganti
Extracts from here: anti-Genetically Modified Organism activism in India is led by five Indian activists and six NGOs, including Greenpeace. Stalling of mega industrial projects, like POSCO and Vedanta, is well documented, including the role of European NGOs such as the UK-based Amnesty International, Action Aid and Survival International. FURTHER In the Indian context, significant […]
The “secret” IB report of 2014 on Indian NGOs – the OCRd version
This report was leaked by someone in 2014 and is available widely – e.g. at https://archive.nyu.edu/bitstream/245... and at https://humanrightsmanipur.files.word... I’ve OCRd in order to be able to review it properly. Download here.
Aruna Rodrigues’s attempt to get the GOI to take legal action on my support for science, truth and liberty
Not content with her claims being THOROUGHLY rebutted, Aruna has gone on to ask the GOI to take legal action against me: https://colintodhunter.blogspot.com/2... The screenshot here. ==TEXT BELOW== Aruna Rodrigues issues legal notice to initiate legal proceedings stop illegal GMO release On 11 June, Aruna Rodrigues issued a legal notice to Chandra Kishore Mishra Secretary […]
June 13, 2019
Now that Kavitha and Aruna and Vandana have been vanquished, out comes the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch!
Looks like someone from Swadeshi Jagaran Manch has re-opened the Roundup issue as well, here: Do you know something about carcinogenic Glyphosate? — ASHWANI MAHAJAN (@ashwani_mahajan) June 12, 2019 Ashiwini Mahajan is Associate Professor, PGDAV College, University of Delhi. National Co- convenor Swadeshi Jagran Manch My response: . So now that the debate on Bt […]
Response to a commentator regarding climate change
Received this: I read and very much agree with your article ‘Climate science Violates the Basic Precepts of Science’ but the mathematician Professor John Andrews, who will soon be delivering a talk in our town on “technologies to combat global warming”, to whom I showed your article, has commented, “there is no reference to existing […]
June 12, 2019
C.S. Prakash’s Twitter debate with Kavitha Kuruganti
C.S. Prakash has put out some informative tweets on GM technologies recently. I’m not good at reading Twitter so I’m making a post that contains the contents of Prakash’s tweets. BT BRINJAL/ COTTON Those who question the success of Bt cotton in India or eggplant in Bangladesh must look at their adoption rate by farmers, […]
Brief comment on Vandana Shiva’s recent comment on Bt crops
This is what’s been reported: “Bt crops like Bt Cotton and Bt Brinjal has a gene for producing a toxin inserted in the genome of the plant, thus producing the toxin in every cell all the time. Given that genetically modified crops cause great harm to biodiversity, the culprits must be booked” – source: http://www.millenniumpost.in/nation/m... […]
My response to Aruna Rodrigues’s email
Now my response to Aruna’s email. The first half of Aruna’s mail is ad hominem. I’m happy to ignore it since she doesn’t know what she doesn’t know. This is my preliminary response. I’ll also get this vetted by reputed scientists and update it if necessary. As usual my comments are in blue. ==ISSUE #1 APPARENTLY […]
