Beware the GMO Trojan horse! Indian food and farming are under attack

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987143/beware_the_gmo_trojan_horse_indian_food_and_farming_are_under_attack.html
Date Written:  2016-02-11
Publisher:  Ecologist
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX18684

Global oilseed, agribusiness and biotech corporations are engaged in a long term attack on India's local cooking oil producers. In just 20 years they have reduced India from self-sufficiency in cooking oil to importing half its needs. Now the government's unlawful attempts to impose GM mustard seed threaten to wipe out a crop at the root of Indian food and farming traditions.