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Old 17-10-2003, 08:12 AM
Tim Challenger
 
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Default GM crops giant Monsanto pulls out of Europe

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:04:30 +0100, Bevan Price wrote:

"Tim Challenger" "timothy(dot)challenger(at)apk(dot)at" wrote in message
s.com...
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:58:13 +0200, martin wrote:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$FWR5QGCNKO04FQFIQMGSFG
GAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2003/10/16/wmons16.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/16/ixnewsto
p.html

Good news for anti-GM-croppers, but bad news for all the people employed

in
thier normal (ie non-GM) crop business and research.
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Unless non-GM seed suddenly becomes "unavailable", leaving farmers no
alternative but to buy imported GM seeds ?


That's what was thinking -I don't know what share of the seed market that
Monsanto has in Europe. But I suspect it's fairly significant. Any idea?

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Tim.

If the human brain were simple enough that we could understand it, we would
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