GM crop 'ruins fields for 15 years'

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/article318238.ece



GM crops contaminate the countryside for up to 15 years after they have been harvested, startling new government research shows.

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The researchers found that nine years after a single modified crop, an average of two GM rape plants would grow in every square metre of an affected field. After 15 years, this came down to one plant per square metre - still enough to break the EC limits on permissible GM contamination.

Last night Pete Riley, the director of GM Freeze, said; "It is becoming clearer and clearer that it is going to be impossible to grow GM crops in Britain."
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rape is a vegetable

GM ruins fields, wonder how much it ruins human bodies?

and some GM crops cannot be sold in some markets

Problem with GM volunteers is that they are patented and if patented crops show up in a field the farmer has not purchased seed for THAT year, he can be sued by the company that owns the patent.

So, corporations will end up putting the independent farmers outta business eventually. Seed blow from trucks in transport and start growing in other fields. Soon, everybody will end up with some illegal patented plants on their fields and be liable for patent violation lawsuits by large corporations with big budgets for legal fees.

If you hate paying for gas from greedy corporations with the market cornered, how are you gonna take it when ALL the food you need to purchase is controled by the same charming CEOs?

The REAL threat of GM foods is that they will make farmers extinct and all your sustenance will come from those who value only money.

All soybeans in the US are GM, as is corn syrup, which is in EVERYTHING. And since it's in corn syrup that would seem to indicate that it's in all corn too.

Scientists apparently have very little idea what the long term consequences of GM foods will be on the human body.

Industry has lobbied hard to keep GM foods untraceable (sp?). If a problem developes we will have no clue where it comes from, who to hold responsible, etc.

Tip of the iceburg.

There's a new movie out about this.