tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83436682758975310002011-07-30T22:00:55.034-07:00Nature's elements are inseparable. Modern Civilisation,however considers nature to be made up of separate elements and bases its designs on this imperfect knowledge. Nature's automatic intrinsic control continues as if this design did not exist and hence huge and dangerous reactions result. GM -Genetic Modification is one such example. This is a set of Haikus discussing the Bt Brinjal and its consequences.Ramaswami Ashok Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15525366311000374653noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343668275897531000.post-6239064304583832152010-02-08T06:51:00.000-08:002011-01-20T22:05:11.556-08:00<b>© 2011 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar</b><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Bt Brinjal No!</span><br />Criminal Hurry<br />Unconstitutional Step<br />Bt Brinjal No!<br /><br />Bears Bacterial gene<br />Bacillus thuringiensis<br />Makes own pesticide!<br /><br />Learn from history!<br />Bt cotton crop residues<br />Poisoned, killed cattle.<br /><br />Thousands of farmers<br />Cultivating Bt crop<br />Khudkushi did they!<br /><br />Now Bt Brinjal?<br />Labratting humans-Indians?<br />Leaders gone stark mad?<br /><br />Trash Bt Brinjal<br />Let healthy varieties thrive<br />Which are in plenty<br /><br />Leader’s track record<br />Ugly, wicked, unfriendly<br />Inefficient<br /><br />Thinking unwisely:<br />Nature’s parts unconnected:<br />Imperfect Knowledge<br /><br />See alterNative:<br />Organic mixed planting<br />Has no pest problem<br /><br />Successful wisdom<br />Born out of experience:<br />Traditional farms.<br /><br />Various strategies<br />Non-pesticidal, check, thwart<br />Pest damage for long.<br /><br />Thus don’t risk Bt<br />Or synthetic pesticides:<br />Utility nil.<br /><br />Hark! MOEF<br />Promote classically sound<br />Agronomic ways.<br /><br />Proactively plan<br />People’s awareness programme<br />Its safe sane simple.<br /><br />Awake and arise<br />There is nothing more tragic<br />Than ignorant acts.<br /><br />Irreversible!<br />Bt pervades the whole plant<br />Including brinjal!<br /><br />Auto- pesticide<br />Also pervades every cell!<br />Uncontrollable!<br /><br />Monoculture farms:<br />Moderate pesticide use<br />Control based on need.<br /><br />But Bt’s toxins<br />Cannot be moderated<br />Cannot be washed off!<br /><br />Label GM foods?<br />Can it be strictly enforced?<br />If not trash GM.<br /><br />Don’t violate rights<br />Its against constitution<br />Contaminate not.<br /><br />Permit GM food?<br />People will avoid them all.<br />They will starve to death.<br /><br />Follow people’s views.<br />In democratic India<br />Preserve nation’s health.<br /><br />Brinjal people’s food.<br />Available all over<br />UnBtd, fresh, cheap.<br /><br />Whom does Bt serve?<br />Better tackle pollution,<br />Don’t add to the mess.<br /><br />Most affordable<br />After potato, brinjal<br />Why beat this, Bt?<br /><br />Bt- whats your niche?<br />Just stay put there for all time<br />Thats best policy.<br /><br />There is true knowledge:<br />See one changeless life in all;<br />Inseparable!<br /><br />Don’t destroy balance<br />With Bt’s unknowables<br />The synergisms!<br /><br />Origin brinjal’s<br />And diversity brinjal’s<br />Both India centric!<br /><br />Stop Bt Brinjal.<br />Brinjal’s origin India<br />Cartagena says<br /><br />Its diversity<br />Is India centric: UN<br />Stop Bt Brinjal<br /><br />Be infallible<br />In forbidding poison flow<br />Into our Brinjals.<br /><br />Protect human rights<br />Cartagena Protocol<br />Don’t contaminate.<br /><br />For four thousand years<br />Brinjal has been growing here<br />Baengan Bharatas!<br /><br />Varieties Brinjal’s<br />Two thousand five hundred plus<br />Counted in India.<br /><br />Come contaminate<br />Hundreds local brinjal types<br />Bad Bt Brinjal!<br /><br />Approving release<br />Of Bt Brinjal reckless<br />Inexcusable<br /><br />Bt Brinjal leads<br />To a loss to the whole earth<br />From Two Thousand Ten<br /><br />Ironically<br />Biodiversity Year<br />International!<br /><br />Western Ghats, North-East<br />At high risk from GM crops<br />Trash GM crops now.<br /><br />Catch 22 fate<br />Field trials are too risky<br />Contamination!<br /><br />GM foods unsafe<br />Or safe- thirty long term tests<br />Can possibly show<br /><br />Whether tests were done?<br />No way to confirm the fact!<br />Irresponsible.<br /><br />In India such tests<br />Cannot be validated<br />No facility!<br /><br />Traditional plants<br />Cannot remain pure at all<br />With GM crops and plants.<br /><br />Keep GM crop at<br />Three hundred meters distance?<br />How did one fix this?<br /><br />Three thousand meters<br />Bees pollinate brinjal at<br />This isolation!<br /><br />Are we being taken<br />For a Bt Brinjal ride?<br />Who benefits please?<br /><br />Crop isolation<br />Seems unnatural indeed<br />In Indian Regions<br /><br />If one has to save<br />Rich wholesome traditionals<br />For use for all time.<br /><br />Look no farther than<br />West Bengal’s hundred species<br />Grown on the margins<br /><br />Ground realities<br />Make GM crops not needed<br />No utility<br /><br />Origin centric<br />Bt Brinjal prohibit<br />Ignorant action<br /><br />.<br />Unacceptable<br />In diversity centric<br />India, one with Mother Earth.<br /><br />Critical warning<br />Solanaceae family<br />May become poisoned<br /><br />Threatening safety<br />Of life as we know it here-<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">With Bt Brinjal</span><br /><br />Most nations preempt<br />Growing GM crops and save<br />Traditional crops.<br /><br />Follow wise counsel<br />Ban Bt Brinjal Bharat<br />Save ecology.<br /><br />Human Feed Study:<br />Intestinal bacteria<br />Has GM food’s gene<br /><br />The inserted gene!<br />Continues to function there<br />Making pesticides.<br /><br />Our intestines<br />Live pesticide factories<br />For the rest of life<br /><br />These GM proteins<br />Potentially risk health<br />Need long term studies<br /><br />US health review:<br />Grave doubts about GM foods<br />Moratorium!<br /><br />Small scale farms and<br />Agro-ecologicals<br />Not GM, the way<br /><br />Thus beat poverty<br />And hunger with full stomachs<br />Ban Bt Brinjal.<br /><br />Planning Commission:<br />Review GM policies<br />Acts, laws and Rules<br /><br />Its Task Force Recoms:<br />No commercial release<br />Till rules are in place.<br /><br />But government has allowed<br />Open field trials of rice<br />Inexcusable.<br /><br />Also of mustard<br />Pigeon pea to be followed<br />By wheat, pulses, fruits!<br /><br />GEAC failed!<br />Research papers shun GM:<br />Its too dangerous:<br /><br />There’s ignorance on<br />Fate of soil microbials,<br />Of soil nutrients.<br /><br />There’s ignorance on<br />Cattle microflora’s fate<br />Precaution is wise.<br /><br />It is possible<br />GM corn and soy have caused<br />US health problems.<br /><br />Bt Brinjal shunned<br />By Monsanto-Mahyco’s<br />Biosafety facts!<br /><br />So analysts found:<br />From facts released publicly<br />By Supreme Court PIL.<br /><br />Recommendation:<br />Ban Bt Brinjal: Health risk:<br />For living beings great.<br /><br />Only ninety days:<br />Longest toxicity tests<br />Effects ten years down?<br /><br />Can cancers be caused?<br />Would gen-next suffer ill health<br />Fed on GM foods?<br /><br />Tests have not answered<br />Such grave critical questions<br />Ban Bt Brinjal<br /><br />To get at the truth:<br />You renounce all attachment<br />Do double blind tests!<br /><br />Engineered GMs’<br />Base is imperfect knowledge:<br />Separateness is the truth<br /><br />Truth: One changeless life<br />In all; interconnected<br />Are the separate.<br /><br />Traditional crops<br />Harmonise with nature<br />Assuring good health.<br /><br />Tradition’s success<br />Lies in designing around<br />Micro-ignorance.<br /><br />Tradition’s practice:<br />Produce, consume and return<br />Self -Sufficient!<br /><br />GM’s changes<br />Infinite from nature’s forms<br />Invasive learning<br /><br />Mistakes may be large:<br />Nature’s intrinsic control’s<br />Reactions unknown<br /><br />Thus GM’s safety<br />Cannot be truly tested<br />Except by long use!<br /><br />Defeat the modern<br />Prevent the inferior<br />From disturbing peace!<br /><br />Protect tradition<br />Let the eighty percent still<br />Have those priceless seeds.<br /><br />Ban Bt Brinjal<br />Protect right to eat brinjal<br />Of consumers’ choice<br /><br />Scientifically<br />GM is unsafe for foods<br />Protect consumers.<br /><br />Vegetable marts<br />Labeling impossible?<br />If so ban GM<br /><br />GM promoters!<br />Principle of precaution!<br />Uphold People’s right.<br /><br />KIA’s terror<br />Deepens biotech market<br />Yes, by true witchcraft<br /><br />KIA Nuke Deal<br />Monstrous errors: Terrors they!<br />Irreversible!<br /><br />Ban Bt Brinjal<br />In the public interest<br />Of Jagat Mata.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">References:</span><br />1. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bharat Mansata</span>.2010.Open Letter to Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister for Environment and Forests.<br />GOI.Personal Communication.<br />2.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> SG Vombatkere. </span>2010. Personal Communication on People’s Rights regarding GM Food Health and<br />Safety.<br />3. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ashok Kumar, R</span>.1986.Modern and Normal Civilisations.Link:<br />http://modernandnormal.blogspot.com/<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343668275897531000-623906430458383215?l=geneticmodificationbtbrinjal.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ramaswami Ashok Kumarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15525366311000374653noreply@blogger.com0