Under Pressure, Monsanto withdraws GM Corn (Maize) from France
Monsanto says won't sell GMO maize in France in 2012
Under pressure, Monsanto has withdrawn its GMO corn MON810 from France, as beekeepers, activists and farmers protested and repeatedly sued - and won - in court.
This comes on the heels of Bayer, Syngenta and other manufacturers of neonicotinoid pesticides withdrawing their products for use on almonds in California. Although at first GMO and pesticides seem different, they are in fact tightly corrrelated: seeds now routinely are GMO, and are simultaneously treated with nicotine-based pesticides and fungicides. The full article is here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/24/us-gmo-france-monsanto-idUSTRE...
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