Canada geese may have spread viable seeds of genetically modified
wheat grown at the Central Experimental Farm, documents from Agriculture
Canada show.
The odds aren’t high, the department says.
But the geese ate the experimental wheat last summer at the Experimental Farm. Geese are voracious eaters and leave droppings every few minutes.
The fear is that these geese may have left poop with living GM wheat seeds that could allow GM wheat to spread outside the controlled field, or even away from the farm itself.
The issue blew up on a Friday night in 2012, taking the department by surprise.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Pooping+Canada+geese+have+spread+wheat+seeds/8698908/story.html
The odds aren’t high, the department says.
But the geese ate the experimental wheat last summer at the Experimental Farm. Geese are voracious eaters and leave droppings every few minutes.
The fear is that these geese may have left poop with living GM wheat seeds that could allow GM wheat to spread outside the controlled field, or even away from the farm itself.
The issue blew up on a Friday night in 2012, taking the department by surprise.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Pooping+Canada+geese+have+spread+wheat+seeds/8698908/story.html
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