Sentence examples for modified crops in from inspiring English sources

Others opposed genetically modified crops in general.

Spain decided to admit cultivation of genetically modified crops in 1998.

The fate of genetically modified crops in Brazil, one of the world's fastest-growing agricultural superpowers, will hang in the balance in 2004.

It was to protest genetically modified crops in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, of which Mr. Ambrose was a member.

BRUSSELS — The biotechnology industry, claiming the backing of European Union governments, signaled a new effort on Monday to win greater leeway to grow genetically modified crops in Europe.

Scotland is to ban the use of all genetically modified crops in a move which the government says will preserve the country's "clean and green brand".

It also called for a fully validated test procedure to be available to detect the presence of a genetically modified crop in food before that crop is approved.

Those would be the first such trials of a genetically modified crop in Africa, and if successful, this maize would be the first genetically modified crop created in a developing country the first, it is to be hoped, of many.

Amflora potatoes, likely to become the first genetically modified crop in the last decade to be approved for growth in Europe, have become the unlikely lightning rod in the angry debate over such products on the Continent.

Lynas first heard about the notion of genetically modifying crops in a Brighton squat in early 1996, at a meeting of about six activists that was lead by Jim Thomas, a campaigns director for Greenpeace.

As human beings proliferate, modifying crops in an effort to get an ever higher yield, spraying toxic pesticides and transforming thousands of acres of natural land into suburbs and strip malls, we risk bringing folly upon ourselves and all other species.