Would you believe that this knuckle rapping was over a paper which looked at the effects of GM maize being fed to rats?

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The ingredients it will search back for are foods containing GM maize and soya, and chymosin, an ingredient of some vegetarian cheeses and pizzas.

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The recent hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini GM maize study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetically modified crops has obscured another line of attack on biotechnology: claims that GM crops are environmentally unfriendly.

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Plans to sow a the GM fodder maize trial crop at Castle Cenlas Farm had also faced significant local opposition.

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But this may change if present trends continue and it gets harder to find non-GM sources for such ingredients as soya oil and maize syrup.

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Helen Mary Jones asked whether the first minister believes the UK Government will invoke their powers over the Assembly to compel Wales to include the controversial maize type in its list of accepted GM seeds.

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Apart from the BASF potato, there is only one other GM crop approved for commercial growing in the EU - a strain of maize developed by Monsanto called MON810.

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If they opt for science, they may discover, or at least need to consider, what Lynas came to believe: that, for example, GM does not increase the use of chemicals as pest-resistant cotton and maize require less insecticide.

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