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Article: Greenpeace asks Thailand for strict ways of destroying GM papaya
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 17, 2004
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Greenpeace asks Thailand for strict ways of destroying GM papaya
BANGKOK, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Greenpeace warned on Thursday that
genetically modified (GM) papaya might spring back to life in
Thailand due to the way they were destroyed, local press reported on
Friday.
"Their method of burying the papaya trees without separating the
seeds will enable them to grow later on in multiples," Jiragorn
Gajaseni, director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia, was quoted by
Bangkok Post as saying.
Some 1,000 GM papaya trees were chopped down and buried in 2 meter-
deep pit on Wednesday in northeastern Thailand while anti-GM corps
opinions seemed to take the upper hand of the heated debate of the ...