date:Jan 13, 2014
A recent coalition agreement between the Christian Democratic party and the Green party in the German state of Hesse calls for the regions agriculture to be biotech free but this action is largely symbolic. With regard to plantings, Germany has at the federal level already banned the one GMO crop that is permitted to be cultivated in Europe (a corn called MON810). With regard to feed, Germany has a structural shortage of animal protein feed and farmers in Germany, including those in Hesse, are