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2009-02-05 | permalink
GM faces unfair regulation in Europe
Trials completed in 2003 showed that two herbicide-resistant GM crops were worse for farmland wildlife than their conventional counterparts. The most damaging aspect of growing these varieties was not the genetic modification itself, but the way farmers applied weedkillers. Now, as we report on page 10, a similar crop has been developed without the use of GM - yet it won’t have to undergo special trials to test the effects growing it will have on wildlife. This is illogical. Why not regulate all crops the same way?
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2009-02-05 | permalink
GM faces unfair regulation in Europe
Trials completed in 2003 showed that two herbicide-resistant GM crops were worse for farmland wildlife than their conventional counterparts. The most damaging aspect of growing these varieties was not the genetic modification itself, but the way farmers applied weedkillers. Now, as we report on page 10, a similar crop has been developed without the use of GM - yet it won’t have to undergo special trials to test the effects growing it will have on wildlife. This is illogical. Why not regulate all crops the same way?
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