Regardless of the science, the practice is insane...
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Those safeguards are critical because China, a major importer of corn from the U.S., has not approved genetically-modified corn containing Syngenta's MIR162 genetic trait, and won't accept shipments containing so much as a trace of GMO corn. Syngenta's seed is sold under the brand names Viptera and Duracade. According to ADM, which owns 200 grain elevators across the United States, Syngenta's actions have cost corn exporters tens of millions of dollars in lost profits. Until recently China had been a significant purchaser of U.S. grown corn, and Archer Daniels Midland Company sold and exported substantial volumes of corn to China. China is the second-largest corn consumer in the world. The regular corn crop has been tainted as a result of cross-pollination, where the wind has blown pollen containing MIR162 onto fields where regular corn is planted, and also by channeling, where the modified corn is combined with regular corn at processing facilities.Too much corn in too few hands, compliments of our patent regime. You cannot have this and avoid disaster. Crazy!
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We may be eating GMO food anyway:
http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/PatrickWatson/GMO-consumers-crops-products/2015/03/25/id/634372/
Russia Officially Slams Door Shut on American GMO:
No genetically engineered US corn and soyabeans will be allowed to poison the Russian food supply
Russia is making consequent its decision last fall to ban the commercial planting of Genetically Modified Organisms or GMO in its agriculture acreage. The latest decision, effective February 15, 2016 does not at all please Monsanto or the US Grain Cartel.
http://russia-insider.com/en/business/russia-officially-slams-door-shut-american-gmo/ri13078
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