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GM Food Hurts Environment

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posted on Oct, 6 2003 @ 06:47 PM
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This doesnt surprise me in the least bit. Whenever you decide to mess around with nature, there is ALWAYS a drawback that you didnt expect that will kick you in the ass...

If it ain't broken, don't fix it!

Is GM food good or bad? Rather than just debating the question, Britain decided to conduct a large, three-year study. Now they've announced that two of the three GM crops grown experimentally, oil seed rape and sugar beet, are more harmful to the environment than conventional crops. Growing these GM crops damages plant and insect life.
The third crop, GM corn, allows the survival of more weeds and insects and therefore may be approved. This was the largest study of GM crops in the world and the results have been a closely guarded secret until now. Paul Brown writes in The Guardian that this will be a major setback to biotech companies that are trying to convince the U.K. and Europe to grow GM crops.

The results of the study, when published, will include eight peer-reviewed papers about the effect of growing GM crops and using their accompanying herbicides on the plants and animals in the fields, as well as those in nearby fields. More GM crops could not be planted during the trial period.

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