[lbo-talk] GM in Brazil

[Thiago Oppermann]

On 8/10/2003 9:38 PM, "lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org"
<lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:


> 
> the soy belt in southern brazil is roughly 18 million hectares - as of
> a week or so ago, there was enough GM soy seed in brazil to plant about
> 1,500 hectares for research

According to my Gaucho contacts there already is a lot of GM soy growing in
Brazil illegally. It is mostly smuggled into Paraguay, which has over the
last few years become quite an exporter of soy. Soya laundering, as it were.

Thiago