France suspends planting of GMO crops

Even w/ Sarko in the driver's seat the French prove to be waaay smarter than us.
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original-reuters

France suspends planting of GMO crops

By Sybille de La Hamaide

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he would suspend the planting of genetically modified (GMO) pest-resistant crops until the results of an appraisal of the issue later this year or early in 2008.

Unveiling the country's new environment policy, Sarkozy said no GMO crops would be planted in France until the government had received the results of an evaluation by a new authority on GMOs set to be launched later this year.

"I don't want to be in contradiction with EU laws, but I have to make a choice. In line of the precautionary principle, I wish that the commercial cultivation of genetically modified pesticide GMOs be suspended," he said.

The only GMO crop grown in the European Union is a maize using the so-called MON 810 technology developed by U.S. biotech giant Monsanto, which is designed to resist the European corn borer, a pest that attacks maize stalks and thrives in warmer climates in southern EU countries.

Monsanto says the protein contained in its maize has selective toxicity but is harmless to humans, fish and wildlife.
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further to the left than most of our Democrats.

screw them and the mutant totalitarian horse* they rode in on. Don't want no steenkin frankenfoods.

*N.B. - Commander AWOL Bush, a Connecticut Yankee preppy cheerleader occultist pretend Texan, is afraid of horses and so rode in on a limosine.