Cricket Tragic It depends on your point of view whether there was much organic canola grown in Canada. If you were a farmer who was growing it and it was a major part of your rotation then it would seem like quite a bit of importance could be placed on it. Organic farming in Canada, was during the
gmo insurge, and is still, just getting started.
Organic associations are still trying to come to terms with definitions and certification procedures. Because of the farm income crisis during the 80's and into the 90's, many people were looking for alternative means of making a living. Volunteering time to work for the local organic association doesn't qualify as off-farm income which banks were requiring at the time.
Perhaps if those farmers had had the big bucks to prepare reports like the pg economics studies, lobby the government, and go to court to see that the rights and responsibilities of the gm corps were all accounted for in the introduction of GM crops, we might have had a similar system of barrier strips as the Europeans.
It is true that if the organic growers were willing to
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settle on a low but demonstrable maximum for adventitious presence, instead of a nil tolerance, they would have less difficulty dealing with some of the co-existence issues."
I expect that if the organic growers the PG Economics people are talking about accepted a percentage of Genetically Modified material in their organic crops it would also make it easier for the GM corps to deal with the co-existence issues. What a happy coincidence.