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Old 11-03-2004, 01:18 PM
Tim Tyler
 
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Default GM Crops

Gill Hall wrote or quoted:

There is extensive coverage in the Independent this morning about the
degree of contamination in the US - quote: two-thirds of conventional
crops in the US are now contaminated with GM material, dooming organic
agriculture and posing a severe future risk to health - unquote. [...]


Probably because GM is here at last - albeit tied up in expensive red tape:

``UK gives cautious greenlight to GM maize''

Britain gave the thumbs up this week for commercial planting of
genetically modified (GM) maize, risking a backlash from
environmentalists and a sceptical public despite setting strict
conditions. [...]''

- http://www.fingaz.co.zw/fingaz/2004/...h11/4959.shtml
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