A United Nations conference on the risks of genetic engineering in farm crops has opened in the German city of Bonn.
Two thousand delegates from 147 signatory nations to the so-called Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety are trying to work out rules on the use of modified living organisms and who pays if experiments go wrong. At a protest rally outside the conference venue, Indian biotechnology opponent Vandana Shiva said major companies which propagate monoculture farming are endangering species diversity and the livehoods of the world's traditional farm communities. Three major farming nations - the United States, Canada and Argentina - are not signatories to the protocol. The week-long conference precedes a major United Nations convention in Bonn on biological Giant wrestler finds fame back home in India ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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