Dr. Stapper recently appeared on ABC Catalyst’s GM special. The program is presented on their website in 5 segment starting with an introduction into the Genetically Modified breeding “In the Beginning”. Maarten appears at the end of the last section “Daily Bread or Dread” and a separate 5 minute interview.
Click here to watch the video on ABC Catalyst website
TRANSCRIPT
NARRATION
Outside the GM world, away from potential corporate control, scientists want to focus on the soil rather than the plant gene.
Dr Maarten Stapper
GM farming doesn’t do anything for the soil. The plants just grow in it, so if the soil is bad and degraded, the GM plant can’t improve.
NARRATION
Maarten Stapper believes agriculture should rely on nature rather than GM technology.
Dr Maarten Stapper
What we have to do is, we have to change the whole farming world to making the soils healthy, with more carbon and activating the biology. And then that healthy soil, with the high carbon and active biology, will change the expression of the current genes. All these marvellous things that, that GM has, that promises for solutions, we get the current farming with biology.