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Old 29-05-2003, 06:23 AM
Gordon Couger
 
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Default RR Wheat - but who wants it? (was GM German Wheat Trials...)


"Torsten Brinch" wrote in message
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CWB asks Monsanto to put the brakes on roundup ready wheat

Winnipeg - The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has called on Monsanto
Canada to withdraw its application for an environmental safety
assessment of Roundup Ready(R) wheat (RRW). Monsanto's RRW application
is currently before the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.


It will be very satisfying when a crop becomes tight and the historically
inelastic prices send the price of gm free crops soaring.

Because of the surpluses of grain the countries demanding non gm crops have
been able to get them from free. As soon as there is even a perceived
shortage the gm free shipments prices will soar in relation to conventional
crops.

For the last three years we have been using grain a greater than production
rates. Soybean rust has made it's way to the US. The EU has suddenly become
a buyer of oil seed meals.

It may take a while for a major agricultural catastrophe to happen but one
will and you will find your gm free postion very expensive.

It may come to a point that there is not enough gm free goods available to
meet the worlds needs if the major exporting countries keep adopting them.
Your sky is falling opposition to them is wearing thin and with the
countries lining up on the US side in the WTO it may turn out the world just
ignores your concerns on you farm to fork tractability. Particularly if the
WTO rule in our favor.

A united EU is a powerful economic force but the same methods of divide and
conquer will work on the EU has it has in every other conflict. And there
are serious rifts in the EU. The US may be arrogant, materialist and rude
but we have a depth of capital that no one can match when it comes to war of
any kind, conventional, trade or what ever. Trying to impose your standards
on the world will in the end only cost you a great deal of money and leave
your farmers and industry so far behind modern practice that they can not
compete.

Zeiss is as good an example as I can think of. They make with no question
the finest optics in the world. But even running a not for profit business
and cutting out all their dealers and dealing factory direct to reduce
operating cost to the bone they can't compete with Olympus in microscope and
other in other fields.

The longer you try this charade the more it will cost you.

Gordon