Agriculture committee  Thank you. I agree with Dr. Keller. There's no question that we're looking at better and cleaner technology. Mr. Richards was saying that farmers are against the bill. As a farmer, I talk to farmers every day. They want a traffic cop on the corner. When a farmer goes to buy so

Agriculture committee  I have a question for you: what mechanism can we have to keep Roundup Ready alfalfa out of Canada? I don't see the economics. I don't see the agronomic usage. We need something other than science.

Agriculture committee  It's Forage Genetics. They're an independent company, but they rely on Monsanto genetics.

Agriculture committee  But we're talking about an annual versus a perennial crop. We're talking about a crop that can exist outside of arable land. I mean, the ditches in Oregon and Idaho are polluted with Roundup Ready, and that's what I'm afraid of. We need a mechanism going forward to protect our al

Agriculture committee  Thank you. That's a good question. Recently, members of the EU as a trading group have adopted GM policies, but they left it up to the individual countries to decide which GM traits they wanted in their system or not. When it got down to it, Germany, France, and Britain politica

Agriculture committee  With the new zinc finger technology, the DNA recombinant technology, the new technologies going forward, you could do this in a small laboratory. You don't need a large university facility. I just know that because of the economics you're not going to need hundreds of people work

Agriculture committee  As an alfalfa seed marketer, and working with Forage Genetics, we do multiplication with FG on their conventional side. You asked why they would put a product, in this case GM alfalfa, into a market where there is none. Well, I've been marketing seed for 25 years, and I've had on

Agriculture committee  You're right. As Peter suggested, this is a tough question, and for myself, personally, I would like to see some academia on a board. Pure science is good. I don't want to see every grass hugger out there, but I would like to see academia being present, because I'm afraid of the

Agriculture committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As a brief preamble, while flying on WestJet yesterday, I picked up The Globe and Mail, and here is a quote from it by the father of India's green revolution, Dr. Swaminathan: Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, w