GM contamination affects Spanish organic farmers

Organic farmers in Spain are, according to a Reuters article, abandoning maize after finding traces of GM strains in their crops. In 2004 farmers planted 120 hectares of organic maize in Aragon in Spain. All the crop was later found to have been contaminated by GMOs and the following year Aragon logged only 37 hectares of organic grain, data shows.  http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7207 See also "GMO contamination in Spain: a warning for Europe - Impossible Coexistence: Seven years of GMOs have contaminated organic and conventional maize: an examination of the cases of Catalonia and  Aragon": http://eu.greenpeace.org/downloads/gmo/impossiblecoexistence060404.pdf This information comes from Lothian and Borders Bio-check: LABB@smcholden.charitydays.co.uk

Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 November 2006 )