Monsanto move to drop GM wheat a response to market forces, says Byrne
The US agri-chemical company earlier announced that it would not try to market Roundup Ready, a GM strain of wheat it has developed over seven years at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Environmentalists opposed to GM products hailed the decision as a major victory for consumers and farmers worldwide and claimed it was indicative of growing biotech crop opposition overall. They claimed it was a key defeat for the firm in the fight to stop GM crops.
