France chucks out law allowing cultivation of GM crops
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:10 am
Now, I did check with Andy before posting this link because I wrote the article and I didn't want to get in trouble.
No more trouble than I am usually in, anyway.
The French government managed to lose a vote on a law that would, basically, allow the cultivation of, inter alia, GM maize. They never got round to debating the law because it was chucked out on a proceedural point.
There are those who believe that this was not an entirely unwelcome happening for the Sarkozy regime because about 90% of the population don't want GM here but el Presidente didn't want to upset the Americans either.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/society/jo ... -crops.htm
No more trouble than I am usually in, anyway.
The French government managed to lose a vote on a law that would, basically, allow the cultivation of, inter alia, GM maize. They never got round to debating the law because it was chucked out on a proceedural point.
There are those who believe that this was not an entirely unwelcome happening for the Sarkozy regime because about 90% of the population don't want GM here but el Presidente didn't want to upset the Americans either.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/society/jo ... -crops.htm