<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b89f509f-8192-438c-86dd-00c681b6fcd1/97F768BF-912C-467C-9B7D-69AB854DCAB0/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/green-light-for-gm-farming/2007/08/11/1186530679026.html?s_cid=rss_national" href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/green-light-for-gm-farming/2007/08/11/1186530679026.html?s_cid=rss_national" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theage.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/green-light-for-gm-farming/2007/08/11/1186530679026.html?s_cid=rss_national">AUSTRALIAN farmers should be allowed to plant genetically modified crops as soon as possible so they can compete with the rest of the world, according to a confidential Federal Government report.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/green-light-for-gm-farming/2007/08/11/1186530679026.html?s_cid=rss_national">Genetically modified crops pose no danger to human health or the environment and should be given the green light, the report said.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/green-light-for-gm-farming/2007/08/11/1186530679026.html?s_cid=rss_national">But environment and public health groups expressed grave concerns, saying the risks were not yet understood.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/green-light-for-gm-farming/2007/08/11/1186530679026.html?s_cid=rss_national">Institute of Health and Environmental Research director Judy Carman, an epidemiologist and senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide, said a number of studies had shown that rats fed a diet of genetically modified canola had recorded increases in their liver weights of about 16 per cent.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/green-light-for-gm-farming/2007/08/11/1186530679026.html?s_cid=rss_national"><P>"These rats were getting swollen livers and yet no more research into why that was happening has ever been done," Dr Carman said.</p> <P>"We should be demanding further testing, because when you look at the safety aspects we just don't know what the potential impacts are."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/97F768BF-912C-467C-9B7D-69AB854DCAB0/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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