Genetic Modification

... In a comment to the press that the EU Commission gave out together with the report this week they claimed that "there is nothing secret about the study referred to in the Greenpeace press release. The version published on their [the Greenpeace] web-site is a draft ..." However, this is simply not true. The letters that accompanied the study when it was delivered to the European Commission in January, and that were obtained by Greenpeace, clearly state that the study was presented in its "final version" at that time. The study states that farmers who don't want to cultivate GMOs would face high additional, in some cases unsustainable, costs of production if genetically engineered (GE) crops were commercially grown on a large scale in Europe. The study predicts that the situation would become particularly critical for organic farming of oilseed rape as well as for intensive production of conventional maize.

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