[Ngo-sanrm] Vietnam to plant genetically modified corn as questions linger | Politics | Thanh Nien Daily

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Thu Sep 11 18:10:15 BST 2014


Vietnam's small opposition to the push say they've all but given up.
Truong, a vocal critic of GMOs, confirmed that since the agriculture ministry licensed the four GM corn varieties, there has been a “silence” from those who object to the controversial crops.
“Anti-GMO activists now see no point in continuing to debate GMOs; the dice has already been cast,” Truong told Thanh Nien News. “They don’t want to fight tooth and nail against powerful interest groups.”
A September 4 piece by The Gioi Tiep Thi, a weekly newspaper, noted that at an international conference on GMOs in Ho Chi Minh City last month, familiar anti-GMO scientists were “totally absent”.
“There wasn’t a single research paper presented that disputed [the cultivation of] GMOs in Vietnam,” the piece wrote.
It also cited a well-regarded expert as saying that the portions of his paper that discussed the possible ramifications of cultivating GMOs Vietnam were cut by conference organisers.

http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/vietnam-to-plant-genetically-modified-corn-as-questions-linger-31018.html


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