{"id":350,"date":"2009-07-22T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T16:48:33","slug":"monsanto-gmcorn-harvest-fails-massively-in-south-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2009\/07\/22\/monsanto-gmcorn-harvest-fails-massively-in-south-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto GM-corn harvest fails massively in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed this story completely back in March. Did you? Or did network news give it full, multi-day coverage and I just need to watch more TV?<\/p>\n

South African farmers
\nsuffered million of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of GMO maize
\nfailed to produce hardly any seeds. “Monsanto says they just made a
\nmistake in the laboratory ; but we are saying that is (a general) biotechnology
\nfailure. You cannot make a mistake with three different varieties of
\ncorn”,\u00a0those were the words of Mariam Mayet.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The three maize
\nvarieties which failed to produce seeds were designed with a built-in
\nresistance to weed-killers, and manipulated to increase yields per hectare.<\/span><\/strong> Was this
\nthe case ?<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a good example
\nof how a\u00a0simple mistake in the laboratory can lead to hunger and
\nespecially for small holder farmers who rely on their crops for their
\nexistence.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the
\nstory<\/a><\/p>\n

Below (and on the website) is the video of farmer suicides in India due to Monsanto policies and GM crop failures<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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