Agriculture is one of the sectors most at risk when it comes to climate change. This is not an assessment, but unfortunately a confirmed circumstance. However, even in such a situation, there are those who wring their hands. We are talking about the producers of GMO food, which was recently found to be unsafe, or more precisely, harmful to human health and the environment. Due to increasingly pronounced disturbances in the market of agricultural products, wars, specialized companies for its production and sale, and the support of the governments of certain countries, food created with the help of genetically modified organisms does not falter and is a serious competitor to that produced in conventional and organic ways.
This primarily refers to the so-called “third” world, that is, poor countries that are increasingly food insecure. In such countries, they sow, but also buy everything that can be found on the market at slightly more favorable prices and without fear, that is, to find out in detail whether it is a GMO or an alternative to it?!
SUMMIT AS A SHOULDER TO CRY ON
The recent Climate Change Summit organized by the United Nations held in Baku (Azerbaijan) did not bring anything new compared to previous ones. It was actually a gathering of high-ranking officials from the largest number of countries on our planet, where worrying stories were “recited” and some proposals for what must be the response to climate change.
Well, I guess the world understood that if there are no concrete measures, enough money and understanding from those who have the biggest and worst forms of emissions of harmful gases and vapors that affect global warming, the planet and its citizens will face challenges with the worst scenarios.
The year 2024 was an example of how climate change can surprise and most seriously threaten the lives and health of citizens, residential and economic buildings with accompanying infrastructure, as well as agriculture, i.e. food production.
Only our country, at the height of this summer season, was affected by over 70 days of drought accompanied by tropical temperatures, which resulted in a 70 to 100 percent reduction in the yield of field crops.
Spain was hit by unprecedented floods in certain parts of it, especially Valencia, which took more than 200 human lives with huge material consequences. In this year, over 100 of the most destructive hurricanes roared across the planet, as well as a large number of fires, which, among other things, reflected in the bad balance in the production of agricultural goods…
There is no reason to doubt that the world is not worried about climate change and its consequences. However, at the same time, excluding the organization of the United Nations, its agencies, services and the almost constantly lit red light on this issue, most countries, as a rule, have “obstacles” to work on.
Not even a word was heard at this Summit about the fact that climate change is the strongest wind at the back of GMO food producers. Plants and other species from this “engineering” tolerate extreme weather changes more easily and without significant losses in yields. That argument obscures all the other bad sides and dangers of that type of food.
A DANGEROUS ALTERNATIVE
Hamlet’s question: “security or hunger” without any dramaturgy should be on the side of the first and overcoming the second situation, namely hunger. That is the easiest thing to say, because the data and the situation on the ground are completely different. Although everyone’s mouths are full of healthy food, unfortunately, there are more and more empty plates. In such a space, producers of GMOs find markets and consumers without major problems.
The powerful companies involved in this production also face numerous other problems on the planet, where armed conflicts, economic isolation and bans are undoubtedly the worst, which pushed GMO out of the focus of the media that advocates for healthy food. The expectation that the European Commission will adopt certain restrictive and “advanced” solutions in this matter in the new mandate did not worry its producers.
First of all, there are no new strictures and radical obstacles in limiting the production and circulation of GMOs in the announcement. A strong influence on its survival is exerted by powerful companies that, for the most part, convinced the general public that without certain “supplements” with this food, hunger on the planet would be much more pronounced. Even unbearable?!
Otherwise, it is expected that most of the countries of the Old Continent will have the discretionary right to decide what and how to act on GMOs until 2027. And that circumstance, undeniably, contributes to the fact that the line between safe and unsafe food is becoming thinner and thinner.
OUR STORY
The situation with our country is interesting, as in 2009 it adopted the Law on Genetically Modified Organisms, which prohibits their production, importation and marketing. Since this law is stricter than European legislation, it does not comply with World Trade Organization (WTO) criteria.
In order for Serbia to join the WTO, it is a condition that it changes the Law on Genetically Modified Organisms. The rule, or rather a paradox, is that no WTO member country may have general bans on trade in any product, even GMOs.
It is fortunate that our citizens still do not have to fear that they will be “showered” with GMO offers, because our market still has a good offer of healthy food. Admittedly, both the public and all those who decide to produce and market some of the GMO products are exposed to harsh measures and fines.
HE CAME TO TUMARANJE
It is difficult to avoid the mere mention of the dangerous old man Alija Balijagić (65) without slipping into the space of imagination, sensationalism and similar border areas. First of all, that double murderer and multiple returnee from prison eluded pursuit by special police units from Montenegro and Serbia for more than 20 days.
If on October 25, in the village of Sokolac near Bijelo Polje in Montenegro, he had not killed a brother and sister from the Madžgalj family and then fled in an unknown direction armed with a hunting rifle, the aforementioned Alija would have been nothing more than news in the media. However, his wandering and hiding has disturbed many. Especially when he was seen on the territory of Serbia and in the villages around Prijepolje.
In various polls, citizens are most often asked: what does the fugitive eat and how long can he last without it? What will happen when the frosts “harvest” wild pears, apples and mushrooms? Few, almost no one, insists on surrendering and confessing with raised hands the crime they committed? At the end of the day, responsibility must not be an individual virtue, but a rule and a collective consciousness.
Equally when it comes to GMOs or certain Aliyah. If we want to get there to some extent!!!
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Source: www.agromedia.rs
