Mexican mutant attack!!!!

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday April 19, 2002 21:02 by mr.Boy

Run for your lives!!!

there is massive contamination of crops in areas that act as the gene bank for one of the world's staple crops.

A historic day! All of Mexcico's Maize is contaminated by GM muties. Tell your green bug eyed grandkids that you remember when the first staple of a country was contminated by GMs.
After an extensuve survey in the states are the genetic home of maize,

'evidence of contamination was found at 95% of the sites. One field had 35% contamination of plants.'
It fuels the controversy stirred by the discovery of mutant strains of maize, which was originally reported in November in the journal Nature

'Mr Soberon confirmed this infiltration of supposedly pure strains was the worst recorded anywhere.

"There is no doubt about it," he said. "We found it in 8% of seeds kernel by kernel."

It appeared that maize imported into Mexico from the US for the production of tortillas may have been used as seed by farmers who were unaware that it contained grain derived from GM crops.

The worst contamination was found near main roads, along which maize is sold to villagers. In remote areas, contamination was down to between 1 and 2%.

The revealing factor was the presence of the cauliflower mosaic virus, which is used widely in GM crops to "switch on" insecticides which have been inserted into them.

Mr Soberon said the GM developers Monsanto, Syngenta and Aventis all used the same technology.

The government could not find out which of the three varieties of GM maize was responsible for the contamination because the companies refused to disclose which protein they used in such a commercially sensitive project.

"I find that extremely difficult to accept," he said. "How can you monitor what is going on if they do not allow you the information to do it?"

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