Reply #18: Did you also notice the last line in that piece?

[countryjake]

"A second crop, a potato, is in the final stages of approval in Brussels, but it would only be used to produce starch for the paper industry and would probably be grown in Germany and the Czech Republic."

Up here in the Pacific Northwest, many of the Monsanto mutant plants that they're now trying to bombard us with have nothing whatsoever to do with human consumption...they're for renewable "energy" like canola or to substitute a new crop for another that the chemical companies has always reaped tremendous profits from, such as the logging industry. In our county, they planted a whole mess of "refined" toilet paper trees, supposedly more dense and faster maturing alders that would yield finished "product" (butt wipe) sooner; those projects were abandoned for reasons I can't offhand remember, something about the run-off affecting nearby wetlands during our numerous floods and disappointingly high maintenance costs; they were deemed a failure and harvested after only three years and never replanted, but the blueberry canes, veggie fields, and other food crops that they'd replaced have never been re-cultivated either, so those farms lost out, big-time, in that experiment.

I worry about this alert from the British Isles, in pointing out the "danger" of people who don't want anything to do with GM methods, Monsanto and the other huge chemical mega-corps, or Agri-businesses moving into our areas. Our local governments are eager to be complicit with this bullshit and are enabling such policies that make it harder, daily, for the average farmer to protest or to even stop being nudged out by such conglomerates. It's become fruitless to simply knock on the door of a grower who has been sucked into the "progress" and "greed" these methods lure with, so what is the average farmer to do?