Sunday, 24. June 2012
Topic: food - on June 24, 2012 at 8:35:00 AM CEST
GMO food: Hybrid poison grass that kills Texas cattle not genetically modified
Reports that GMO grass suddenly started producing cyanide and killed almost an entire herd of cattle in Texas are only partially true. CBS News reported June 23, 2012 that rancher Jerry Abel of Elgin, near Austin, Texas had been growing Tifton 85, a GMO version of Bermuda grass, for 15 years when the grass suddenly started emitting poisonous cyanide. However, Tifton 85 is not GMO grass, but a hybrid.
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