Publicly Funded GMO Research Facing Destruction In Italy

ChromeAeonium writes "Shortly after the events in Rothamsted Research in the UK, where a publicly funded trial of wheat genetically engineered to repel aphids was threatened by activists with destruction and required police protection, another publicly funded experiment involving genetically engineered crops faces possible destruction (original in Italian). The trial, which is being conducted by researchers at the University of Tuscia in Italy on cherries, olives, and kiwis genetically engineered to have traits such as fungal disease resistance, started three decades ago. When field research of GE plants was banned in Italy in 2002, the trial received an extension to avoid being declared illegal, but was denied another in 2008, and following a complaint from the Genetic Rights Foundation, now faces destruction on June 12th, despite appeals from scientists. The researchers claim that the destruction is scientifically unjustifiable (only the male kiwis produce transgenic pollen and their flowers are removed) and wish to gather more information from the long running experiment."

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Re:GE/GMO crops

[progician]

And yet, history tells us that the colonization of the now developing regions in the past and the economic devastation that many of these countries suffer even in the present time by financially control of the mostly corporations that are linked to our great, never better western society is a major catastrophe for all these countries.

I know that this is what you're looking for, but don't expect much of worship for these good deeds.