Environment

Monsanto GM Corn a Disaster in South Africa

by mtippett | July 28, 2009 at 11:01 am

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Another blow to Monsanto's credibility. This time it's from South Africa where GMO food has failed to live up to it's promise.

(NaturalNews) Farmers in South Africa have reported an inexplicable failure to seed in three different varieties of corn genetically modified (GM) by the Monsanto Corporation.

"One can't see from the outside whether a plant is unseeded," said Kobus van Coller of Free State province. "One must open up the cob leaves to establish the problem."

The problems occurred only in corn engineered by Monsanto for increased yields or for resistance to the company's trademark herbicide, Roundup (glyphosate). Failure to seed has been documented in the provinces of Free State, Mpumalanga and North West.

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everchanging

at 13:12 on July 28th, 2009

Monsanto's Credibility is only in the fact that its products are all based on Genetically Modified Organism (GMO's) & not by nature. Monsanto Corporation is very interesting (not in a good way "opinion") in all that it stands for and does to the food products we consume in the U.S. and other places in the world concerning genetically modified products, which is our basic food base aka corn, wheat, soybeans, Cotton, Tomatoes, Melons, peppers among others. GMO's are being blamed for a lot of heath problems we as humans are having that we are consuming from these items in our food. Just look at the site links below from Monsanto for more info of what who they are.

Leading Product Brand names from Monsanto

International Companies under Monsanto

Herbicides Products made by Monsanto (these are herbicides used on Corn, Soybeans, Cotton, Wheat, Trees, Nuts, Vines and other consumable products by humans

Barry ORegan

at 14:02 on July 28th, 2009

Uwe Paschen

at 16:16 on July 28th, 2009

Maybe with all this latest news people will finally smarten up and realize that GMO can not replace traditional crops and are causing more additional trouble then giving benefits. Further we have to take into account the long term effects on the environment wish no one seems to worry about at Monsanto.

Thank you for the post here on this.