04.13.2009 12:17 pm
Yields of genetically engineered crops questioned
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Union of Concerned Scientists will release a report tomorrow that promises to debunk the idea that biotechnology can feed the world by increasing crop yields.
The groups says that production gains in the United States over the past 15 years have been due to traditional breeding and conventional agricultural improvements - not because of genetic engineering.
Come back to EcoSpeak tomorrow to find a link to the report called “Failure to Yield.”
Given biotech’s firm hold in St. Louis, a good discussion is sure to follow.
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Kim McGuire joined the Post-Dispatch in August 2007. She has covered the environment for almost 10 years while working at The Denver Post and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. In 2004, McGuire was named a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 
Here is a quote for the Union of Concerned Scientists website:
” UCS members are people from all walks of life: parents and businesspeople, biologists and physicists, teachers and students.”
For a second there I thought it was a legitimate scientific group…but as it turns out, $35 is all it takes to make YOU a Union of Concerned Scientists too.
Any club that would have me as a member, is not one i want to join.
LOL Larry…