So where are all the comments here from the pro or anti GM people? Surely this feral GM should be getting some attention by now with postings?

Wow. Who would have thought this could ever happen?

Just cause some greenie from a nature magazine says so, it must be true! If crossing varieties was so easy, why do we have any plant breeders? We could all be out there breeding away happily. Show me the proof before you backward hicks come out and scaremonger GM crops. What a crock.

We read all the contamination studies on GM canola from Aus, Canada, UK et al years ago. That's why we tried to stop it. News to you? Don't know why the US is so slow to report. Most non-GM canola seed banks in Canada are GM contaminated; visiting pro-GM Canadian farmer Scott Day showed us the pictures of his Bayer GM canola stacked with Monsanto's. The study conducted in Australia on canola cross pollination (Rieger et al 2002) showed contamination kms from the source crop. The Gene Technology Regulator said it would happen, but she didn't care because the GM weeds could be removed with harsher chemicals such as 2,4-D. GM is about helping pesticide producers sell more product. This is an entirely intentional contamination of our food crop. Don't know if you've noticed, but there's no such traded commodity as GM-free canola. We've had a food crop stolen. I don't eat canola anymore unless the producer gives a GM-free guarantee. We are cleaning up the roads ourselves and delivering the GM canola back to Monsanto. What else can be done? We're young with GM and can stop it? There's nothing that can be done unless GM is removed from the approval list.

Temporaryfarmer obviously has been listening to too much GM spin and is now having difficulty accepting that GM is a total con job. Your ridicule and derogatory aspersions clearly demonstrate your ignorance and a total lack of understanding of the deleterious consequences of GM crops.

What a lot of anti-GM BS, it is the future of agriculture and plant breeding. Madeleine Love, you and your family will go very hungry if you don't get over it, as 80% of soya products that are imported into Australia are GM and soya and soya products are already in a lot of food products and have been for a number of years. GM is just another tool that plant breeders use to get us farmers around the world higher yielding and more sustainable plant varieties and as a canola grower I'm happy that I have access to it now and have not been left behind by the rest of the world’s canola growers who have had GM for 10 years now. GM will mean I will be able to put food on my family’s plate and pass on a sustainable farming enterprise to the next generation. Have a look at the Australian cotton industry to see how good it has been for cotton growers - if it was not for GM technology we would not have a cotton industry here in Australia today.