permaculture

["Saor Stetler" <sstetler@earthlink.net>]

Engineered seeds can survive in soil for 10 years
Scientists in Sweden found genetically engineered canola plants springing up
in a test field 10 years after engineered seeds were originally
planted-despite efforts over time to clear the field of transgenic plants.
The canola plants were engineered to tolerate the herbicide glufosinate. In
the years following the canola planting, the field was plowed and used to
grow wheat, barley, and sugar beets, and farm staff routinely searched for
and removed canola plants. Yet after a decade canola plants were still
sprouting in the field. The persistence and dispersal of genetically
engineered plants into the environment is one of the serious problems with
this technology, and may contribute to contamination of conventional crops.
Read  <http://ucsaction.org/ct/p7SaP041CEXa/> more about engineered crops,
or read  <http://ucsaction.org/ct/l1SaP041CEBF/> the study abstract in
Biology Letters.