This is good, that the high court is adhering to science, not fear-mongering. This is one brave farmer.
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If memory serves me right, I think the Italian farmer may actually be the president of the Italian maize growers' organization.
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Hopefully he had a lot of support from that group when he challenged the laws of the land.
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The key question will be how much support he gets going forward. Italy is extremely anti-GMO. If Italy's like France, it will just ignore EU
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This might be The Time of The Farmer. Too much irrational & harmful silliness in the fears to allow them to continuehttp://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/glyphosate-ban-will-kill-conservation-agriculture-french-farmers-warn/ …
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Here's what happened in France when a senior court ruled the French GM ban was illegal: Nothing.http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-gmo-court/french-court-hands-symbolic-win-to-gmo-maize-supporters-idUSKCN0XC1HZ …
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I don't think that economists can ignore the fact that a GMO ban puts their country and farmers at a disadvantage for very long, can they?
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Given the degree to which European ag is driven by sentiment and gov intervention, I suspect they can ignore economics for a very long time.
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