Chef Kevin Thornton (above) and his team from Thonton’s at Stephen’s Green, Dublin yesterday opposing GM food and hormone treated meat coming to Ireland.
It is feared a new EU-US trade deal could open the door to banned practices such as GM crops or cattle treated with hormones.
Michelin-starred Kevin is part of an association of European chefs who work to defend the “quality and integrity of food” and believe allowing US products cNOMNOMNOMNOM
(Leon Farrell/Photocall ireland
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Who are they to question what Monsanto and our IMF overlords have in store for us?
This is such nonsense GM food is perfectly fine and will help feed millions in parts of the world which struggle to grow food. If you have ever eaten seedless grapes you’ve consumed GM food so get over sizer selves.
unfortunately, the protest may conflate GMO food and hormone treated food in peoples’ minds, and they’re two separate issues.
WRT to my comment below – granted.
What about angel dust and growth hormones? And prions?
Domestos people in Ireland have the benefit of having fat grass fed animals to eat but poorer arid countries do not so allowing them to pump up cattle using HGH is alright with me. I have never heard of angel dust being used though.
^ that. These people are the most pathetic bunch of losers of the modern age: whinging, misinformed, middle-class slacktivist clowns the lot of them. Doing more harm than anything. Idiots.
Actually Kevin Thornton owns a Michelin star restaurant on Stephens green he would be classified as upper class.
What’s your source for these claims?
What attribute being touted does not already exist in another strain of said organism due to selective breeding or evolution, but which cannot be patented?
Ignoring concerns about increased pesticide use with GMOs, threats to long-term food security, increased mono-culture, risks to bio-diversity, inability to control the spread of GMOs, farmer indebtedness, legal action against sedd-saving, IP controls, soil quality concerns, the emergence of super-weeds and super-pests, you’re claim that it is “perfectly fine” is in conflict with “findings (that) imply that long-term (2 year) feeding trials need to be conducted to thoroughly evaluate the safety of GM foods and pesticides in their full commercial formulations.” http://www.enveurope.com/content/26/1/14
I hope your spaceship is waiting to collect you cause you’ve already left this planet.
you do realise that there are other objections other than health reasons such as the business practices that go along with them.
Im all for modifying plants to our needs but leaving the food monopoly in the hands of large corporations is a recipe for a post apocalyptic B movie
Jess just cause GM foods exist doesn’t mean we have to use them. Sure there are thousands of types of chemical pesticides and fertilisers but people still cough up extra for organically grown veg or grass fed cattle. Jobs will be fine what you should really be thinking about it the jobs we could create in third would countries by helping them start an agricultural sector and help feed millions with their new GM crops that will be made to grow in harsher environments.
Yes, people will cough up more for organically grown food, but you have to have laws governing what descriptive terms you can use and what you have to do to use them in food advertising, or you’re in a world of hurt.
I mean, “organic” for feck’s sakes. Ask a chemistry student in first year of the Junior Cert. It just means “contains carbon”. You find a plant on this planet that doesn’t contain carbon (hell, you find *any* living thing that doesn’t), and you’ll be on the front cover of Nature, Science and half the talk shows so fast you’ll wonder what the fuss is all about…
I’m fairly sure you do actually have to prove your food is organic, don’t ask me who to but the daughter of an organic farmer tells me it takes years to cycle out the artificial yield enhancers.
Drogg the problems with the companies owning the seed, not the farmer, have been well documented. You think the companies forcing farmers to grow this and only buy seed from them are doing it out of benevolence?
Jess where do you think farmers get seeds for crops currently? Cause they all come from big companies as well.
They should just have a drinkie boo of fresh wart and get back to loving mother nay nay.
…if Kevin Thornton doesn’t know or can’t vouch for the provenance of every single ingredient he uses, he is charging exorbitant prices under false pretences.
Ability so to vouch isn’t a false pretence?
Never mind the GM food – those signs are terrible!
With all the money that Kev is charging for his grub ya think he’d be able to afford to go to a printer.
Jesus…
Ah well that’s Kevin for you. He likes to keep things artisan, rustic, handmade, free range, organic like. Just don’t ask him for chips.
GM crops aren’t banned FYI.
GM foods and hormon treated cattle are very different things.
I’m open to persuasion on the GM foods but effed if I’m eating american beef. Do you know the rate of e-coli in that stuff?
Did anybody ask him for chips?
Yes,
Genetically modified chips.
Sprinkled with angel dust.