Corn growers in the U.S. lost an upwards of $3 billion in revenue last year after the Chinese boycotted shipments of American corn following the discovery of a genetically modified seed that had not yet been approved in the country.
Agrisure Viptera, a seed genetically altered to contain a protein that kills corn-eating bugs such as earworms and cutworms, had not been approved by China in November 2013 when it was found in several U.S. corn shipments.
China routinely refuses to approve genetically modified seeds before their own testing is complete.
The discovery prompted China to begin rejecting U.S. corn shipments a few months later, resulting in more than 131 million bushels being turned away by one America’s most important trade partners.
American farmers took the biggest hit, with the National Grain and Feed Association, a trade group, reporting revenue losses at between $1 billion and $3 billion, according to a report by The Des Moines Register.
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I doubt this means the GMO story is unravelling, but it does complement the video I shared with you earlier today, in which it is shown that these companies do not have their GMO products nicely kept inside the boundaries of the farms that grow them. 1,000km, I believe, was the distance that GMO contamination was found from the nearest official farming site.
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