GO Resources learns its genetically modified safflower seed can be sold as cattle, bird feed

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Touted as a new-age biofuel by its promoters, a safflower harvest has been sold as birdseed after a lawyer found an alternative market for farmers who had been contracted to grow it.

A genetically modified seed touted as a biofuel alternative has been sold into the birdseed market, despite claims doing so would be breaching "Commonwealth regulations".Super High Oleic Safflower seed, grown for the bio fuel market, has been sold as animal feed

Safflower was promised to "open the door" to the multi-billion-dollar biofuel industry as it could be used as a high-end industrial lubricant. "It is in fact a breach of Commonwealth regulations to sell GM modified grain without a licence," the email read.

 

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