- "A tall variety (of the GM-canola) was planted to provide the impressive visual difference in height for those that were not aware that Australian plant breeders have been deliberately breeding for shorter varieties."
- "For an additional visual extra, triazine tolerant varieties [the normal canola] were sown far thicker resulting in a spindly look ..." That is, normal plants were sown twice as close together which affected their robustness whereas the Roundup Ready varieties (the GM-canola) looked more robust because they were not crowded into splindliness.
Ms. Newman is quite direct about the false outcome.
"As treatment of non-GM seriously deviated from the norm, it is valid to say that trials have been manipulated to give a false benefit to GM varieties by compromising non-GM comparisons. It is a sad day when trials need to be rigged in a desperate attempt to avoid the truth that GM fails to live up to the hype that surrounds it."
***These trials deliberately ignored the standard weed control used for non-GM varieties. No knockdown herbicide was used and no triazine was applied when sowing. TT varieties only received a half dose of Atrazine well after it should have been applied when the weeds were twice the size as the weeds in RR crops when they received their treatment. The delay in chemical application in Clearfield varieties resulted in weeds being 4 times the size of weeds when RR varieties were treated. Both Triazine Tolerant and Clearfield varieties were treated past label recommendations when weeds were too large for chemicals to be effective.***
The statement from Andrew Leiderman, on whose property Monsanto's GM-canola trial was carried out: "Easy to do stewardship program as Monsanto give you the answer if you get it wrong."
For more detailed information on this study, please contact Julie Newman.
Phone 08 98711562
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