GM Doesn't Give You A Free Lunch.

TECHNOLOGY: GM "Super Weed" Found In UK: "A weed with genes from genetically modified crops has been found in the UK by government researchers. The genes make the weed resistant to several weed killers.

[Friends of the Earth] said Government researchers found a GM version of the common weed charlock growing in one of the fields used in the Government-sponsored farm-scale trials of GM crops.



The plant was resistant to the weed killer used in the GM trial and was confirmed as containing the gene inserted into the GM oilseed rape.



It is the first known case of such an occurrence in Britain and overturns previous scientific assumptions that charlock, a common weed found alongside oilseed rape in Europe, was unlikely to cross-breed with GM oilseed rape.

The UK population has been wary of GM technology, especially when it has been applied to food. Some of that is fear caused by ignorance, but the knowledge that modified genes can cross from GM crops to wild plants isn't going to make GM technology more popular.



('Oilseed rape' is known as 'canola' in the US.)

(Written by: dem_z)

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(Via SuicideGirls: News Wire.)