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Old 19-07-2003, 05:42 AM
Brian Sandle
 
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Default Paying to find non-GE wild corn?

Moosh:] wrote:
On 17 Jul 2003 20:09:04 GMT, Brian Sandle
wrote:


"It gets worse. The selling point behind Roundup Ready is
that it is a glyphosphate-resistant strain. Spray on the herbicide and
you're left with nothing but Monsanto crops. However, after two years
application, glyphosphate-resistant volunteer corn plants begin to
flourish. This has led to the most bizarre Monsanto patent yet awarded. US
patent # 6,239,072 covers the practice of mixing glyphosphate with other
herbicides, and any premixture thereof. This patent has been awarded
despite the fact that mixing herbicides is what any sensible, thinking
farmer would naturally do, and has been doing, in the event of resistant
plants emerging. The patent also serves as a "de facto" admission of the
GM "superweed" problem and that Roundup technology lacks efficacy and
predictability. "


So, don't buy Monsanto products, if you don't like them. No-one's
forcing anyone.


And if you don't want to catch an illness, keep away from the source, if
you know what it is.

How far away is labelling of GM ingredients in corn chips, herrings in
tomato sauce, chocolate &c &c?
 
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