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GM Sweet Corn, No Thanks!

1,052 views · Published 30 March 2009 · 5:51 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: DW News · 2009 · News & Politics

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One German farmer has been planting GM sweet corn in his farm in Bavaria for years. The modified crop is resistant to a pest whose caterpillars eat the unmodified corn. Now the farmer may soon be forced to return to genetically unmodified corn. Environmentalists and German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner, from the Christian Democrat's Bavarian sister party CSU, are calling for an general ban on planting genetically modified maize. But some Christian Democrats are opposing the move, and Research Minister Annette Schavan has come out against the ban.

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