GM crop producer gives up on UK sales

[hedgetrimmer]

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RUSSELL JACKSON


THE prospect of genetically-modified (GM) crops being grown commercially on British soil in the immediate future receded yesterday when the producer of the only crop with government approval said it was giving up efforts to sell its maize in the UK. The announcement by the German biotechnology company, Bayer CropScience, was greeted with delight by environmental campaigners.

The producer said it had decided to pull out of further attempts to commercialise its GM forage maize variety Chardon LL, as the government had placed "a number of constraints" on the initial conditional approval. Ministers had given their consent last month.

Sarah North, a Greenpeace campaigner, said: "The only GM crop with a government green light now doesn’t even have the support of its manufacturer."


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link: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=371032004

[govegan]

1. Thanks for the GOOD news update!

GM crops are an insidious evil, a blatant attempt to monopolize food production and enslave farmers.

Unfortunately, Monsanto will not likely give up anytime soon.

The erosion of genetic biodiversity and the extinction of seed varieties is now recognized as a major threat to people's food security and survival. Even as Green Revolution technologies wipe out genetic diversity, the emerging Biotechnology Revolution threatens to create a new level of genetic uniformity and vulnerability. It is the very basis of world food production that is at stake. In addition, the new intellectual property rights regimes being imposed by the WTO are appropriating centuries of farmers' innovation, undermining farmers' rights and establishing corporate monopolies. Seed is being transformed from a freely shared resource into the private property of transnational corporations.

http://www.navdanya.org/movement.htm

[theoceansnerves]

2. evil, pure evil

bayer, that is. thankfully brits have some sense.