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By Linn Cohen-Cole (about the author) Page 2 of 2 page(s)
Reporters were not been present during the months of growing and spraying so were unable to observe that the ideal timing for treatment was followed for the GM-canola or that the recommendations for appropriate timing were not followed for the normal canola. Instead, they came to see the plants themselves and were subject to other tricks being played which they seem not to have been knowledgeable enough to discern. Ms. Newman is quite direct about the false outcome. "As treatment of non-GM seriously deviated from the norm, it is valid to say that trials have been manipulated to give a false benefit to GM varieties by compromising non-GM comparisons. It is a sad day when trials need to be rigged in a desperate attempt to avoid the truth that GM fails to live up to the hype that surrounds it." ***These trials deliberately ignored the standard weed control used for non-GM varieties. No knockdown herbicide was used and no triazine was applied when sowing. TT varieties only received a half dose of Atrazine well after it should have been applied when the weeds were twice the size as the weeds in RR crops when they received their treatment. The delay in chemical application in Clearfield varieties resulted in weeds being 4 times the size of weeds when RR varieties were treated. Both Triazine Tolerant and Clearfield varieties were treated past label recommendations when weeds were too large for chemicals to be effective.***
The statement from Andrew Leiderman, on whose property Monsanto's GM-canola trial was carried out: "Easy to do stewardship program as Monsanto give you the answer if you get it wrong."
For more detailed information on this study, please contact Julie Newman.
Phone 08 98711562
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