Hi, Thank you for the research you have done. Well done. The information you have got is absolutely correct.

More and more people are aware of GM issues, but for big companies' (those companies who do GM research and try to commercialize the projects they are doing) benefits they are still trying to push it through. Unfornately they often have advantages on influencing legislations!

I guess eventually GM crops will be more and more widely planted because of many reasons, like needing more disease resisiting and environmental tolerated (e.g. extreme weather conditions) crops due to global warming; or because GM crop will eventually take over because it's far more dominant.

I personally prefer none GM products if I can make informed decisions. GM labeling is not complusive yet in Taiwan and China. Under these circumstances, the consumers in Taiwan or China have to keep their fingers crossed if they don't like GM products.

Cheers

Barry

Hi again,

Don't they look beautiful  !?

Last night there was a very important news on TV (in Australia) about canola. Today you also have an article about canola. What an coincident!

Canola may look very nice but there are a lot of problems around this crop at the moment. A lot of Australians are having a protest about passing the law allowing genetically modified canola in Australia. In Canada, they thought the GM canola wouldn't affect none GM canola's plantation. But now, it's already impossible to find none GM canola in Canada anymore since GM crop is so dominant and its pollan has already widely spread to all crops! That's why Australia public is strongly rejecting the idea.

Canola oil is also notorious about it's after taste. The canola oil making factory has very bad-smell surroundings. Other oils doesn't seem to have this problem as strongly as canola.

However, canola oil does have some good qualities though - highest mono saturated fat besides olive oil, which is good for your heart; cheap and versitile. A lot of factories in Australia and New Zealand are using canola oil as deep frying oil because they don't want to use highly processed shortening which has a very high level of trans fat.

Cheers

Barry