CHICAGO, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Distributing biotech seeds to American farmers before they are approved in major grain export markets is not good for U.S. agriculture, an executive with agribusiness giant Cargill Incsaid on Tuesday.
“We do not support the commercialization of GM traits ahead of major market approvals,” Randal Giroux, vice president of food safety for Cargill, told the members of the National Grain and Feed Association, the largest U.S. grain group, at a meeting.
“We don’t think it’s good for U.S. agriculture. We think that we should wait for the commercialization of these traits until we have major market approvals,” Giroux said.
Cargill and other U.S. processors and exporters became hypersensitive to issues related to GMO corn after a variety that was not approved for food use — known as Starlink — was discovered in a U.S. shipment to Japan in 2000. Sales to the biggest U.S. customers at the time, Japan and South Korea, dried up overnight.
The subsequent tracing, sorting, testing, separating and certifying of GMO cost the industry millions of dollars. Read more from Reuters Africa . . .
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This has been a problem for many years. Cross pollination has occurred many times. 2008 in Chili, 2010 North Dakota, India and more. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetically-modified-crop. GMO’s have been found in the wild. I made a post with comments about what if’s and in the the years to come. It was meant to be sarcastic. As the comments reflected things that have happened. I gave a bunch of statistical crap after a post about how statistics can be made to reflect any opinion. You people commented on the post like you had no clue. This stuff is real your screwing up everything. The bugs are becoming resistant to your GMO,s, weeds are as well.
Cross pollination of plants form GMO’s is more and more in the news. ANY ONE see a problem yet?
By the way plz Google sarcasm. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm