SOUTH AFRICA FACING A TSUNAMI OF RISKY GMOs
The African Centre for Biosafety has warned that a wave of new GMOs are expected to flood the South African market during 2009, as the backlog of commodity import permits that have been stalled by a moratorium since 2005 are about to be processed, heralding the opening of the floodgates. Vast amounts of money from biotech backers, such as the Bill Gates Foundation, are also bringing new GM crops onto the South African scene, and