Agribiotech giant Monsanto says it won’t use the controversial “terminator”
technology that it is about to acquire. Terminator is a genetic engineering
technique that prevents the seeds of crops from germinating. It would force
farmers to purchase new stocks of GM seed each year, rather than keeping some
from last year’s harvest. Despite abandoning terminator, Monsanto will not rule
out using genetic technologies that “turn off” modified genes after a single
generation.
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