Mangled Thoughts

A British Govt. funded longitudinal study has found what nay one who has studied geneitcs at matriculation level should be able to conclude, Genetic selection is safe.Funny thing, apart from using it all through the history of civilisation from its foundations, genetic selection is, I dimly recall, a crucial trigger to mergence of speices and diveristy of the same, as well as providing miniscule adaptations which deliver great advantages, it’s been there all along.Well, crocodiles and sharks are frankenstein monsters, so a krill murdering whales, spiders, ants asps, locust - a very long list of Frankenstein beasties in fact - why aren’t bloody greenies out there eradicating the freaks is the question.

Govt, industry sponsored study backs GM crops
A major British Government and industry-supported study of genetically modified (GM) crops has found no evidence that they harm the environment.

The four year study which received funding from the British Government and was assisted by the biotech industry, compared gene-spliced sugar beet and winter oil-seed rape to non-GM crops grown in rotation.

The study found the GM varieties did not have adverse effects on the environment and could help growers to save money.

The study also found that in respect of oil-seed rape, a large amount of seed remained in the field after harvesting and could have an impact on later crops.

Environmentalists say the study proves GM crops are difficult to control.

More On PETA:

Having mentioned last week that bit of plopsim and poop, Newkirk and the delicious momnet, the AWI writ slapping, things get better:

VFF flags legal challenge to PETA
More legal challenges could be looming for animal rights activists.

Last week Australian Wool Innovation launched court action against PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, to stop it organising a boycott by retailers.
Now the Victorian Farmers Federation says if it’s successful in civil proceedings against Animal Rights South Australia, it’ll take the same action against PETA.
The VFF’s Simon Ramsay.
“We will always expect action, particularly from PETA, given their philosophy of companion animals not to be used for a food source: so yes, we will take on PETA, or any other organisation, that contravenes the injunctions that hopefully we’ll be successful in having, given these cases.”

During the Federal election, Ozzies in the U.S. were assaulted by some of the uglies

PETA focuses on Australian voters

Meanwhile Australians voting in the United States are the target of animal welfare activists protesting outside the Australian embassy in Washington today.

Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, are demonstrating against sheep exports and the practice of mulesing, as Australians arrive to vote absentee.

Matt Kaye reports, one member is staging a 36-hour hunger strike to make a point.

“Camped out in front of the Australian embassy, PETA’s Matt Rice enclosed himself in a mock cage.”

“We’re out here in a cage for 36 hours without food.

Someone was not on the ball: as soon as the bastard entered the cage, volitionall, yit should have been clear, he wanted the door padlocked and cage and content dumped into the sea. Slow, slow, slow.

Meanwhile, the twin terrorist front, the greenies, are finding more excuses to halt progress and confiscate private property.:

Logging proposal angers heritage expertsReporter: Jocelyn Nettlefold

JOHN MULVANEY: The Government, probably the Federal Government should purchase the land and attach it to a park which almost surrounds it.

That would be the answer to the problem.

The private owners therefore would receive recompense.

KEN BACON: There would have to be a major catastrophe or disaster for me to even consider land acquisition.

JOCELYN NETTLEFOLD: While the Federal Heritage Council is still considering whether to list the sight, Tasmanian Heritage Minister, Ken Bacon, says he would fight any Commonwealth intervention.

KEN BACON: I don’t like people telling Tasmanians what they ought and ought not to do.

First bloody polticians, then in govt through the new stasiland agencies, EPAs and Orifices of Greenhouse Fartz, then CSIRO, now firefighting services recite the greenies’ rubbish and, blame bushfires on `Global Warming’:

Climate for disasterAsa Wahlquist
November 30, 2004

Assistant commissioner of the NSW Bushfire Service, Mark Crosweller…

He says higher temperatures, due to climate change, also increase the fire risk. “What seems to be happening is there is an increased chance of extreme days - the days where you get the 40C temperatures and the strong winds - and if you are going to get more of those then clearly you will have an increased risk of bushfire.”

But Crosweller points out there is no room for complacency. “We are seeing significant benefits, but we should also set that against what we see as a changing climate moving towards hotter and drier with more frequent fires. We will always have the challenge of keeping ahead of the game,” he says.

A Contradiction that matters not to the purveyers of bullshit:

Michael Coughlan, head of the National Climate Centre with the Bureau of Meteorology, says the seasonal outlook is for above-average temperatures along the eastern seaboard - with the risk of an increased number of days of extreme weather - and rainfall slightly below average in parts.

Recent rains, ironically, have heightened the risk. “It would seem to be quite a dangerous season because it is still fairly dry, but there has been extra fuel due to the growth in some spring rains,” O’Loughlin says.