Sentences with phrase «nearby organic crops»
In early June, a farmer in southern England used weed killer to destroy 26 acres of engineered oilseed rape produced by a biotech company called AgrEvo, because his farm's trustees were opposed to the trials and were worried that the rape might contaminate nearby organic crops.
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Another major unresolved, and irresolvable, problem is the severe cross-contamination of nearby conventional or organic crops by GM pollen.
A major concern about genetically modified (GM) crops is that they might spread their genes to nearby weeds or organic crops.
For example, an organic farmer can no longer call crops organic if they get contaminated by nearby GM crops.