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2008-12-19 |

Indian GM crops battle heats up

While no scientific research has been done on the latest reports of allergies, the deputy managing director of Mahyco Monsanto Biotech, Raj Ketkar, says the technology has to go through rigorous allergy tests before getting approval. [...] ”Around the world this technology has been grown for twelve years and we have not had any instances of animals or people having any type of allergic reaction.” [...] But there are still many activists opposed to GM crops in India. Some argue there is a direct link between the thousands of suicides among cotton farmers in Maharashtra and the introduction of BT cotton in the area.

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2008-12-19 |

Indian GM crops battle heats up

While no scientific research has been done on the latest reports of allergies, the deputy managing director of Mahyco Monsanto Biotech, Raj Ketkar, says the technology has to go through rigorous allergy tests before getting approval. [...] ”Around the world this technology has been grown for twelve years and we have not had any instances of animals or people having any type of allergic reaction.” [...] But there are still many activists opposed to GM crops in India. Some argue there is a direct link between the thousands of suicides among cotton farmers in Maharashtra and the introduction of BT cotton in the area.

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