Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

GM DNA Spreading...

Posted by michael on from the plague-famine-and-pestilence dept.

Raphter writes: "Frightening study on GM crop genes spreading to wild plants. Original [subscription required] is here." The best part is the farmers who have been sued because plants on their land showed traces of this same DNA, and the agriculture giants alleged the farmers must have planted them.

1 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. Featured on NPR a few days ago by Mr.Phil · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    This story was looked at in depth on All Things Conisdered on National Public Radio a few days ago... click here for a real media archive of the recording.

    As to the farmers getting sued and the agriculture giants alleged the farmers must have planted them, I'd make this statement michael. If the farmers didn't plant the seeds to cross polinate other plants in an area (and country) where GM seeds are illegal, who did? Black UN choppers?