Last 19th of June I had the pleasure to visit the Festival of Cience celebrated in the Parc de la Ciutadella, a really big park in Barcelona. This event apart from being really amazing, conmemorated its tenth birthdy.
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| Image 7.1 Addvertisement of the Festival of the Cience |
I went to the Festival not only to deep a little bit more inside the agrifood and how people have selected differents kinds of vegetables to satisfy their own needs. But also to see in first person the continious evolution of cience applicated in a wide variety of research branches, as sport, medicine, physics, chemistry, biology,... As you can chech the photos below.
But what really caught my attention was CRAGs' exposition about agrifood and human selection of vegetables among ages, hence selecting some plants that benefit ourselves, and reporting really losts in vegetables biodiversity, as we selected some plants to make it grew up and others we leave it at their fate and leave apart making them disappear.
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| Image 7.2 Montse Martin exposing "the evolution of plants with virus and humans |
We see virus as something that conferes a bad effect on the host, and hurts it. However, we are completely wrong, as there are some viruses that allow the host survival in different ambients and exposures.
The presentation also made me realize about the power of ignorance, that is blinding the transgenic world, as it is seen for poeple who don't deep inside the subject as something innatural against the nature, that also damage it, but this view is completely wrong as it has been proved that transgenic plants cannot damage humans. This transgenic plants are only resistance, and tolerant to an abiotic or a biotic agent. This demands of the individuals are making it advance really slowly the way law allows the sell of a concrete agrifood product. For example, gold rice has never been comercialized because of the amount of laws stablished in terms of transgenics, there are so many impediments that it is really difficult to commercialize gold rice, or whatever transgenic plant, although it has a lots of benefits in terms of proteins (vitamin A), and would safe a lot of lives around asiatic world. But some people don't understand that above all should be the people.
She ended the presentation explaining his own life, telling us why did she passed from studing SIDA (VIH) to study virus in plants. I really get shocked about his answer she gave at that moment, as I was not conscious of this since she said it:
"MOST DEATH IN ANIMALS OR PEOPLE IS NOT AIDS BUT HUNGER"
