Monsanto in Retreat!

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Thursday, 16 October 2003

Monsanto, the huge American biotechnology company which has pioneered GM crops, is withdrawing from many of its European operations and laying off up to two thirds of its British workers.

The announcement came on the eve of the publication of the Government's GM crop trials today. They are expected to show that two out of three genetically modified crops in the tests may damage the environment.
Source: Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent. For full story go to http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=453822