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Monsanto Says GM Wheat 
Coming Whether Farmers 
Like It Or Not
CBC News
© 2001 CBC All Rights Reserved
7-14-1
FREDERICTON - Modified wheat is coming, whether Canadian farmers want it or not, says an executive of international food giant Monsanto. 
  
Bob Ingratta, Monsanto vice-president of regulatory affairs, told a national conference of seed producers in Fredericton on Thursday the company hopes to have genetically modified wheat to sell in five years. 
  
"We need to make sure in Western Canada that we make some significant changes in wheat over the long term that will help farmers improve productivity and improve profitability," he said. 
  
GM soybeans, corn and canola have been effective tools for farmers over the past years. 
  
But wheat farmers are reluctant to embrace the technology - or to contemplate putting it in the ground. 
  
One reason is that the largest market for Canadian wheat is Europe, where GM foods are not allowed. 
  
"Certainly most people have read the news and heard that Europe does not want any (genetically modified organisms) at all," said Jerry Kubik, a wheat farmer from Wrentham, Alberta. 
  
And Edmund Lesfrund, whose wheat farm is in Vulcan, Alberta, said the technology can't be trusted. 
  
"There is the morbid fear that science may fail us," he said. "Wheat is far too close to people's well-being to have a gamble." 
  
Monsanto hopes to change some of those minds before it introduces its seed in half a decade. 

Written by CBC News Online staff http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/view?/news/2001/07/13/gmwheat010713	

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