Comments on: Nanotechnology in Food (again) http://cientifica.eu/blog/2009/02/nanotechnology-in-food-again/ Taking The Rational View of Nanotechnologies Since 2000 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:55:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nanotech - the Sucessor to GMO’s? | TNTlog http://cientifica.eu/blog/2009/02/nanotechnology-in-food-again/#comment-929 Nanotech - the Sucessor to GMO’s? | TNTlog Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:07:38 +0000 http://cientifica.eu/blog/?p=892#comment-929 [...] I spent the weekend in Paris enjoying delicacies such as “os a moelle” and eating couscous at Au Rendezvous, a Tunisian restaurant so fashionable that Jacques Chirac was at the next table, but came home to find a great deal of tweeting and blogging about nanotechnology & food (again). [...] [...] I spent the weekend in Paris enjoying delicacies such as “os a moelle” and eating couscous at Au Rendezvous, a Tunisian restaurant so fashionable that Jacques Chirac was at the next table, but came home to find a great deal of tweeting and blogging about nanotechnology & food (again). [...]

]]> By: Tim http://cientifica.eu/blog/2009/02/nanotechnology-in-food-again/#comment-694 Tim Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:42:16 +0000 http://cientifica.eu/blog/?p=892#comment-694 It is odd isn't it? I've been in meetings where the agenda has been to ban the use of various technologies in the knowledge that it will cause death. Starving people to death or dropping bombs on them to score a political point both seem morally reprehensible to me. It is odd isn’t it? I’ve been in meetings where the agenda has been to ban the use of various technologies in the knowledge that it will cause death. Starving people to death or dropping bombs on them to score a political point both seem morally reprehensible to me.

]]> By: Ruth Seeley http://cientifica.eu/blog/2009/02/nanotechnology-in-food-again/#comment-693 Ruth Seeley Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:15:01 +0000 http://cientifica.eu/blog/?p=892#comment-693 Am working on a media release that touches on precisely the subject of your last colourful para (note to self: do not read Tim's blog before breakfast, nausea may ensue). Oddly it seems to be precisely the same folks who insist nothing but organic food should be eaten and bottled water be drunk who are also the most active in the protest against disparities between quality of life in the developed vs non-developed world. There is some fundamental disconnect going on there. And why, I ask myself, on a daily basis, has the organic food movement never been challenged on the issue of ground water contamination - because unless you're growing entirely hydroponically or in a greenhouse and watering with distilled water, you are not coming anywhere near close to eliminating all sources of contamination. Am working on a media release that touches on precisely the subject of your last colourful para (note to self: do not read Tim’s blog before breakfast, nausea may ensue).

Oddly it seems to be precisely the same folks who insist nothing but organic food should be eaten and bottled water be drunk who are also the most active in the protest against disparities between quality of life in the developed vs non-developed world. There is some fundamental disconnect going on there. And why, I ask myself, on a daily basis, has the organic food movement never been challenged on the issue of ground water contamination – because unless you’re growing entirely hydroponically or in a greenhouse and watering with distilled water, you are not coming anywhere near close to eliminating all sources of contamination.

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