I am arriving at this conference and would like to present my gratitude for all organizers and participants for being here exchanging knowledge and friendship. My name is Paulo Cezar Mendes Ramos. I am Environment analyst at the Federal Biodiversity Conservation Chico Mendes Institute in Brazil; Cordinator of the Working Group about Transgenic and Agrotoxic of the Brazilian Agroecology Association (ABA) and a Member of the National Biosafety Technical Comission (CTNBio). I have Master in Ecology, master in Agroecology and PhD in Ecology.
Related to Message 28 by Godelieve Gheysen, I would like to stress that: (i) it is unacceptable and irresponsible the introduction of the transgenic Brinjal traits at its origin center (ii) related to the biodiversity we should consider the contamination a problem without solutions. The great variety of Brinjal in their origin center can be affected and nobody knows how. There are no studies that could give reasonable answers for that. There are no studies over the effects of the transgenic as a whole on the food web. The only few studies considers the agronomic factors related to yield. (iii) contaminated species are different from the original ones and it's hard to say how these contaminated ones will affect the autoctonous populations. (iv) Bt transgenics are dangerous for the wild as a whole and dangerous for health as Neha Saigal already stressed.
Paulo Ramos
Cordinator of the Working Group about Transgenic and Agrotoxic
Associação Brasileira de Agroecologia (ABA)
Brazil
paulomr1951 (at) gmail.com
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