The expressive gesture referred to, below, could go also to our own Senator Harkin, endorsed by Sierra Club, who spoke in glowing terms of the recent WTO ruling against the EU efforts at keeping GMOs out of European agriculture. Is Harkin really the Senator from DuPont\Pioneer\Monsanto? It appears so.
Tom

Subj: GMW: Hungary to extend GMO ban
Date: 2/9/2006 3:06:41 PM Central Standard Time
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If this suggests an extended middle finger to Bush and the WTO, then check out other recent headlines below this article.
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EXCERPT: Farm minister Jozsef Graf said it was in Hungary's economic interest to keep the country GMO-free. Hungary is one of Europe's biggest grain producers.
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Hungary to extend GMO ban
9TH FEBRUARY 2006
http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=215038

Budapest, February 9 (MTI) - Hungary will extend its ban on growing genetically modified maize, gov't officials told the press on Thursday.

Hungarian researchers have recently found evidence that maize types freely traded in the European Union represent environmental and health risks, said Environment Ministry state secretary Andras Gombos.

According to the researchers, the toxic content of these types of maize in wet weather conditions can become thousands of times higher than traditional pesticides, he added.

The ban was introduced in January last year.

Farm minister Jozsef Graf said it was in Hungary's economic interest to keep the country GMO-free. Hungary is one of Europe's biggest grain producers.

He said Hungary would try to get European ministers to uphold the ban at a meeting in the summer.
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And it's not just Hungary...

OTHER RECENT HEADLINES

Polish prime minister - "We do not want GMO"
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6216

Austria bans Monsanto's GM oilseed rape
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6163

Ban on growing GM soy in Romania
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6210

Greece extends ban on Monsanto biotech corn type
http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=6185

Oh, and another quote of the week:

"What will the political fallout be of effectively Americans saying, 'Tough, you've got to eat it'? I think the fallout would be quite nasty." - Julian Kinderlerer, a keen supporter of GMOs and assistant director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics, quoted in the International Herald Tribune.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/09/business/gmo.php



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