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April 2, 2004 -- CropChoice news: Like Japan, opposition
to genetically engineered wheat has been growing in
Italy. In a recent conference at Italy's Agriculture
Ministry, "all the food chain players, representing
representing companies and enterprise associations (farmers,
millers, industrial and handcraft processors, retailers),
sentenced to death Roundup ready wheat and, in more
general terms, GE wheat," said Luca Colombo of
the Consiglio dei Diritti Genetici.
"The conference was attended by the main and most
important players of the wheat chain and has been well
covered by national media; we decided to invite as panellists
only the private sector reps and to open a dialogue
between the Italian market and the Canadian wheat system,"
Colombo said. "We presume that lobbying on Canada
can result in a consequent strong market pressure on
(the) US due to the comparative advantage that might
be generated."
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