GM crop trial locations may be hidden from public

The Guardian by Ian Sample | Feb. 17, 2008 (News Report)
Government plans clampdown on vandalism after lobbying from biotech firms

Genetically modified crops may be grown in hidden locations in Britain amid fears that anti-GM campaigners are winning the battle over the controversial technology, the Guardian has learned.

Officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed they are looking at a range of options to clamp down on vandalism to GM crop trials, after intense lobbying by big crop biotech companies. The firms have warned that trials ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Feb 17, 2008 - 11:23 AM PST
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Bruce Sims
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 by Bruce Sims - Oct. 1, 2008

This article shows how business puts itself above citizen concerns, as exemplified by "Only one GM crop is approved for cultivation in Europe, an insect-resistant maize, which is grown on about 110,000 hectares in member states."

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

It is interesting that the Brittle government is contemplating helping big agrobusiness hide their plots of genetically modified organisms. The article give no mention of the GM hazards of cross-fertilization, suicide genes, nutritional degradation, seed patent dependence, or unintended random genetic mutations or the measures to prevent them.

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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008
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