> This solution would not work in countries which already have intensive planting of GMOs. Happily, it appears certain that maize MON 810 will be banned this year in France.

The whole anti-GMO thing is based on an inadequate understanding of the modern science of genomics. Scientists did not "invent" genetic modification, it's a process of nature. -- PLB

> In the early thirties, Barbara McClintock discovered that during the whole life of a maize plant, and not only during the reproductive stages, genes frequently jump from one place to another inside the genome, inducing visible mutations. The famous Indian corn kernels, which are so beautiful with their patterns of red and yellow stripes and spots, are an example of this phenomenon. Barbara McClintock got the Nobel prize in 1983, at the age of 81, for her theory of transposable elements (jumping genes). -- "The natural genetic engineering of plants"  Jean-Pierre Zryd, Institute of Ecology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

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