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Europeans Lag Behind Progress - AGAIN
The news story is a few days old, but the conference took place yesterday.
Farmers around the world planted biotech crops at a double-digit pace in 2003, the seventh consecutive year of growth for the technology, according to the annual report on biotech crop acreage from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
Except guess where?
During a Web cast and teleconference at 10 a.m. EST, Jan. 13, Clive James, chairman and founder of ISAAA, and Randy Hautea, global coordinator and director of the organization’s Southeast Asia Center, will release the complete findings of the report detailing continued global adoption of biotech crops by farmers in developing and industrial countries.
Guess that means Western Europe is neither developing nor industrial. Too bad.
The report says that biotech crops were grown in 18 countries in 2003, up from 16 in 2002, with the addition of Brazil and the Philippines. It will provide a provisional estimate of acreage planted to biotech soybeans in Brazil, the world’s second largest soybean producer. The report also will assess the future growth of the technology.
Without the Euros, of course. It’s just as well; they’d regulate it to death.
As new traits in maize and cotton are brought to market and more countries approve biotech crops, adoption is expected to continue with the global market value predicted to reach $5 billion or more by 2005.
NONE of which will go to the Zeropeans, who still think of the GM foods we already eat as "Frankenfood." BWHAHAHAHAHAH
With an international network of centers in the Philippines, Kenya and the United States, ISAAA is a not-for-profit organization committed to alleviating hunger and poverty by sharing crop biotechnology applications with resource-poor subsistence farmers throughout the developing world.
Which the "compassionate," "caring," "civilized" Euros mightily disapprove of.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut bskolaut@hotmail.com 2004-01-14
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=24349