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Thursday, Feb 10, 2005

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Canada backs "terminator crops"

London: An international moratorium on the use of one of the world's most controversial genetically modified food technologies may be broken if the Canadian Government gets seed sterilisation backed at a U.N. meeting. Leaked documents seen by The Guardian show that Canada wants all Governments to accept the testing and commercialisation of ``terminator'' crop varieties. These are genetically engineered to produce only infertile seeds, which farmers cannot replant. It was jointly patented by the GM company Monsanto and the U.S. Government. Leaked instructions to Canadian Government negotiators at the Bangkok meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, a group which advises the U.N.'s Convention on Biological Diversity, show that Canada will request that all countries open their doors to the technology.

- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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