Message to Investors in Biotechnology
A basic principle in sound stock investment is to gather correct information. It is our ambition as an independent interdisciplinary organization to provide impartial evaluations of new technologies. After visiting our site you will realize that the information you have received from Biotechnology companies has been one-sided, and that it underestimates and even neglects the problematic aspects of GE foods. These problems will have important effects on the market.
Several problems and difficulties contribute to make food biotechnology an unsafe investment. These include:
- Risk for lacking impartiality among scientific experts in the biotech field.
- The lack of knowledge about DNA.
- The lacking safety of GE foods.
- Consumer resistance is not due to ignorance and fears but the expression of qualifed knowledge about the safety problems.
- Increasing worldwide popular and political doubts in different parts of the world.
- An increasing number of major food retailers and producers in various countries going GE free.
- Agricultural problems are presented showing a/o that GE crops are not more profitable than natural ones as formerly claimed.
- Reputed GE technology supporter warns about GE foods - a major blow to the GE industry.
- Leading insurance firms find that the risks are much to incompletely known to make it possible to to insure biotech risks.
- The warning to invest in biotech shares issued by Europes biggest bank, Deutsche Bank in Germany.
- Major companies considering pullout from GE bussiness.
For details, go to the oveview: "Problems and Obstacles in Food Biotechnology"
Our conclusion is:
| We are convinced that, considering the steadily growing and world-wide opposition and the increasing numbers of scientists agreeing about the safety problems with GE foods, it won't take long before a global moratorium will be agreed upon. |
Among leading producers and developers of GE food are: Monsanto, Novarits, Hoechst/Agrevo, Dupont, Mycogen, Rhone Poulenc, Astra/Zeneca, Agritrope, Seminis Vegetable Seeds/Ashgrow. (The list is not complete)
Ethical investments might be a good idea as an alternative. The risk of unexpected backlashes due to harmful effects of the products is minimized and you will have a good conscience.
Don't forget that shares you buy may contribute to the success of a company causing health or ecological damage, in the worst case on a global scale. So be careful in finding out what you invest in.
- List of ethical investment links: http://www.wiso.gwdg.de./ifbg/sri.html
- Guidelines: How to make your pension fund program "green"
- Book: "Investing With Your Values. Making Money and Making a Difference". A very practical and instructive manual on the basics of socially responsible investing.
- For the overview summarizing problems and difficulties that contribute to make food biotechnology an unsafe investment, go to: "Problems and obstacles in Food Biotechnology"
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