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Zambia’s economy depends on grain exports, most of which go to Europe. Currently, Zambia cultivates non-GM varieties of grain. If GM crops were planted in Zambia, cross-fertilization among crop strains would almost certainly cause Zambian grain harvests to contain at least some GM kernels. The presence of genetically altered grain in the nation’s harvest would prevent any Zambian grain from being shipped to European countries because of import bans on GM food, thus depriving Zambia of its principal export market and seriously damaging the long-term health of the Zambian agricultural economy...
Cross-fertilization—the process by which different strains of a crop combine to produce a new organism containing genetic material from both parent strains—can only occur with whole grains. Crushing the kernel of a grain, known as milling, prevents it from reproducing and thus transmitting its genetic material to a daughter organism. Milling GM crops thus eliminates the danger of cross-fertilization and strain contamination by making it impossible for the crops to transmit their altered genes by reproduction...
...says Chicago-area franchisee David Bear. Who knows, some operators may even take a hint from France, of all places, where the company has helped entice more customers with a wide range of unorthodox decors, including a mountain-chalet-style store with wooden beams lining the ceiling and natural-grain wooden tables on the floor. France is one of the few bright spots in McDonald's flagging European business, and maybe that's a sign of hope. If a burger chain demonized by activists as the symbol of American imperialism and poor taste can win over the French, maybe...
...sailors or smugglers. That changed on Nov. 18, when the 200-ft. Samra sank at 4 a.m. in 10-ft. seas, drowning the two sailors and four Iraqis. Sixteen were rescued, including six U.S. sailors. The leaking vessel, owned by a United Arab Emirates shipper, was built to transport grain but secretly carried four large tanks inside its cargo hold for smuggling oil. The Navy's first mistake was to underestimate the amount of oil on board, which made the ship more likely to go down. But it also dispatched a guard crew from the U.S.S. Peterson to the Samra...
...anti-Castro pols worked in a condition that Castro would have to pay in cash. With no access to U.S. credit, they reasoned, Castro would never be able to buy. As he so often does, he called their bluff late last year and purchased $30 million worth of U.S. grain, poultry and other foods - with cash - the first such shipments to Cuba in 38 years...