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Published online 14 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.364
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Germany bans GM maize
State defies European Union directive on genetically modified crops.
Germany has outlawed the cultivation of Monsanto's genetically modified maize, Mon810 - the only GM crop approved in the European Union.
It joins five other countries — France, Austria, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg — that have banned the pest-resistant maize despite its approval under a legally-binding EU directive.
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Maize is genetically-modified teosinte. Ban all cultivation of corn from Europe. Mexican teosinte seed stored over winter in a damp, corroded copper vessel, plant in the spring. One does not obtain teosinte racemes but instead little maize ears. http://www.qfb.umich.mx/maizetxt.ht http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1659072/earliest_evidence_of_maize_discovered/ Euphytica 25(1) 447 (1976)
Transfer of DNA from one organism (e.g. Maize) to another is something that is not understood today. We have first check all possible dangers caused by genetically modified organisms. For me it is obvious. If you add DNA to a genepool, it will spread. And no one can tell what will happen. Not happen today, but in the next 100 or so years. Then we have to ged rid off this DNA, present in organisms where we do not want to have it. That is not going to be funny!
"Man" has been making "changes" for over a thousand years [dogs have been bred for certain tasks, likewise various fruits/veggies & flowers] it's ONLY when "Americans" are successful that it's considered "bad/evil/whatever". Now before everyone flames me, I'm not real keen on messin' with genes, esp. to be resistant to chemicals [Yep, Round-up I'm lookin at you there], or biologicals [gee lets build bugs that eat oil spills]. I'm not even happy about governments giving their "blessing" to these "mixes" [insert your 'favorite' drug/substance that caused more damage than its worth, my personal favs are asbestos, vioxx, ect.] But the "EU" appears to be nothing more than an institutionalized version of anti-americanism. Pick an industry & I'll show you an American company they don't like.