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Monsanto Admits GE Canola Acreage in Canada is Falling

GM CANOLA (OILSEED RAPE) PLANTINGS FALL IN CANADA

1. From the 2020 'Feeding or Fooling the World' debate at the University of
East Anglia in Norwich, UK, 18 April 2001.

"Actually, this year, if you look at the breakdown of canola being grown in
Canada for the first year in the year 2000, the level of genetically
modified canola planted in Canada went down what I would say is a
significant amount..... there is a concern that the farmers have reduced
markets where they can sell these products at the moment.....Many of them
have reverted back to conventional varieties......"

Bernard Marantelli, Monsanto UK.

2. From Farming News, 18.5.2001: 'Demand for non-GMO oil benefits UK
growers'

"The European preference for non-GMO oils is finally reaping dividends for
UK growers.....Delivered rape seed prices are looking firm at £148 a tonne,
helped by the latest reports from Canada. Canola (rape seed) plantings there
are 23 per cent down, and harvest estimates are 5.5 million tonnes compared
with 7.1 million tonnes last year. 'It's a significant drop which is having
quite an effect on EU prices,' says Mr Dadd [of the UK's Home-Grown Cereals
Authority].

3. NLPWESSEX comment:

These figures follow falls in plantings of GM corn in the US for similar
reasons. Because of problems of cross pollination even non-gm crops of
canola in Canada are increasingly unmarketable with a result that not only
has the area of GM canola fallen but clearly from these figures some farmers
are giving up growing canola of any kind, or are significantly reducing the
acreage that they grow. GM is destroying the canadian canola sector.

It is not clear why the NFU of England and Wales is prepared to allow the
possibility of such a situation developing in the UK through its promotion
of the farm scale trials programme.

NATURAL LAW PARTY WESSEX
nlpwessex@bigfoot.com
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