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Biotech / Medical : Monsanto Co.
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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (1832)3/26/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong  Read Replies (1) of 2539
 
'Terminator gene' must be resisted by NZ - Delamere
The Press, New Zealand
March 25, 1999

WELLINGTON -- Associate Health Minister Tuariki
Delamere says genetic engineering of modified crops to
stop farmers saving seeds from their own plants must be
resisted by New Zealand.

He criticised the "terminator gene" being developed in the
United States by the biotechnology company Monsanto
while speaking to a public forum in Wellington on
genetically modified organisms.

The US Department of Agriculture and a private seed
company, Pineland and Delta, have patented a way to
make plants produce sterile seeds.

Environmentalists have protested that multi-national
companies could therefore control food supplies by
denying farmers the practice of saving seeds from each
harvest for planting.

Monsanto has since bought Pineland and Delta and
lobbied to get exclusive rights to the sterile seed patent,
although so far no seed has been produced containing a
terminator gene.

Mr Delamere said this technology must be resisted. "The
only purpose that I can see for it is to extort usurious
profits at the expense of farmers and consumers."

Critics of the technology say that farmers might be forced
to buy so-called "terminator" seeds when a bad crop left
them short of seeds. Scientists worry that pollen from
"terminator" plants could alter other crops in an area and
make them sterile. -- NZPA

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