Genetically modified alfalfa is coming under increasing attack, with 80 groups from across the country joining the call Tuesday to stop the introduction and field-testing of a grain engineered by Monsanto to be tolerant to that company's herbicide Roundup.
"The contamination of alfalfa would be inevitable and irreversible. We've already seen an end to organic canola due to GM contamination and we can't afford to lose alfalfa," said Arnold Taylor of the Saskatchewan Organic Directorate. "Because it's pollinated by bees, genes from Monsanto's GM alfalfa would spread out of control."
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