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Total Ban On GM Corn in France Follows Popular Opposition
Prohibition applies to all current and future varieties of GM corn
by Sarah Lazare
Presentation of Pioneer’s PR39F58 maize, Werktuigendagen 2009, Belgium (Photo: Wikimedia / CC)
The French government on Monday officially banned any strain of genetically modified corn from growing in its soil.
The prohibition is effective immediately and comes as France’s top court upheld and the Senate confirmed an existing ban on all current and future varieties.
As Agence France-Presse reports:
With Paris having twice put temporary bans on GM crops — in 2011 and 2013 — [lobbyists for the biotech industry] said Monday’s verdicts were “not a surprise”.
The agriculture ministry banned MON810 — the only insect-resistant GM corn allowed to be grown in the European Union — in March.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/05/total-ban-on-gm-corn-in-france-follows-popular-opposition/
