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This is also the reality behind genetic engineering. The main purpose of the current gene transfer proposals is to develop crops which can absorb ever higher quantities of herbicide without themselves being killed.
Multinational chemical companies, such as Monsanto, will provide genetically modified seed to farmers who will be obliged to dose the crops with weedkillers from the cune connuanies.
Farmers will not be permitted to take seed from one year's crop to grow the next year, but will have to buy more from the company. Thus, as with the 'green revolution', farmers will be forced into reliance on
FORTY YEARS on from the Treaty of Rome, it is timely to assess whether the Europe of the single currency is a simple evolution from that born out of the cold war?
As the European Union prepares for the single currency next year -its biggest step yet towards a European super state - Alan Thornett: looks back at the origins and evolution of EU and the various stages in its development.
He argues that there have been two distinct periods in the process of European integration. The first was from the founding of the Iron and Steel Community in 1950 to the Single European Act of 1985, Early days on the road to the super state: in 1957 six countries came together in Rome to sign the document which set up the EEC and EURATOM. tion in the most painless way. This could po-