22 February 2007

Fighting Hungary

In a move that will make neither the US government nor the genetically modified food industry happy the European Union has upheld the right of Hungary to ban GM seed. According to a spokesman for EuropaBio, a GM industry group "the Council continues to seriously damage the credibility of the EU's regulatory system which they helped to put in place and on which much of Europe's innovative and industrial capacity relies...today's decision simply denies the freedom of choice to Hungarian farmers who want to grow insect protected maize crops". So in this case, choice is good?

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