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The GM Mustard selloff Some questions / observations on the GM Mustard issue: 1. No equivalence between grafting and GM foods. In grafting, genes aren't modified. 2. GM crops have the capability to kill bees. If you kill bees and other insects, your can say bye bye bye to pollination. There will be global food crisis. 3. Monsanto, currently Bayer, implants the Terminator gene into seeds. Hence, for every crop, farmers have to go back to the company to buy seeds. This is the game. They want to control seed supply. This is against liberty and food security. 4. The GM crop, once in the field, can contaminate non GM crop through pollination. Hence the risk is much more amplified. What if suppose tomorrow the scientists discover that the inserted gene was causing autism or cancer, will it be possible to retrospectively remove the gene from all crops everywhere in the world? 5. GM Mustard is a solution to a non existing problem. The crop is hardy and not prone to any major

   This response is Authored by Ganesh Krishnamoorthy with editorial inputs of Mr. Shrivathsa B(from hereon, SB) in continuation of the Part 1 of the response of SB to Shatavadhani R Ganesh’s (from hereon, SG or RG) article .      It is now our revised and considered view that RG's article could have been titled aptly to suit the main theme of their article . N amely : “Why it is ok for Hindus to eat beef and drink intoxicants? Weren’t their ancestors doing the same?”    The following is a detailed para by para analysis and rebuttal (where necessary) of RG's article.    The first paragraph of SG’s article refers to a survey of meat eating in India. W e are not sure how the authors are safely deducing that the decline in meat eating in India is “not due to Hinduism” when the same   survey they referred to clearly indicates that roughly only 20% of the population in India amounts to Non-Hindus. This being the statistical data w h ere the majority of popula