GM golf-course grass escapes...

August 14, 2006

...why not try the first ever GM impact assessment. Fucking retarded could better manage our environment. Oh, wait...

Jay Reichman and colleagues at the US Environmental Protection Agency's labs in Corvallis, Oregon, identified nine escapees out of 20,400 plants of various grass varieties sampled within a 4.8-kilometre radius of the site where the bentgrass is being cultivated, the most distant 3.8 kilometres away. The team showed that the GM grass has spread both by pollinating non-GM plants to form hybrids, and by seed movement.

The grass is a perennial, too. Joy. (p.s. the article says Roundup is "relatively benign"...yet still is able to kill over 90% of amphibians when introduced into ponds at the recommended doses).