[Pil-pc-oceania] GM may spread to weeds? Great!

[Deb Guildner]

1. You're an optimist......

2. Or, as the Walt Disney show used to say:
"...and then there's Fantasyland, the happiest kingdom of them all........." 
(Sigh)

3. News item, World News, sometime in the year 2009:
"Monsanto, DuPont and Bayer today decided to cease all chemical production 
and genetically modified plant production, and place all non-GM seeds in 
their ownership in the public domain to be freely shared by the denisens of 
planet Earth." (Nice!)

Wild GM canola has already escaped (and most likely crossed with wild weed 
relatives) to roadsides in the Adelaide Hills near where some trial crops 
were grown several years ago, (according to a biological farmer and anti-GM 
campaigner who lived in the area). The same has probably happened 
elsewhere....what's to prevent it???

Deb



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr Bob Rich" <bobrich at bobswriting.com>
To: <pil-pc-oceania at lists.permacultureinternational.org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: [Pil-pc-oceania] GM may spread to weeds? Great!


> I've had a thought. So herbicide resistance may cross over into weeds. 
> That
> could have a number of very beneficial effects:
>    1. Instead of relying on Roundup, farmers will need to rely on sane
> farming practices.
>    2. The spread of poisons will reduce as a result.
>    3. Farmers losing income will be in the same kind of position as
> asbestositis sufferers -- and Monsanto will be in the same kind of 
> position
> as James Hardy.
> Bring it on!
> :)
> Bob
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