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Makka ki roti aur sarson ka sag is a popular food item in northern India, in particular, Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh where both maize and mustard are widely grown. All vegetarian dishes made in much of northern, eastern and western India are cooked in mustard (sarson) oil. Why, suddenly, has mustard taken centre stage? GM mustard has begun to stir both the scientific and activist lobbies, the latter vehemently against it, while the former is keeping its fingers crossed. This piece is about the now controversial Dhara GM mustard hybrid-11 or DMH-11, developed by scientists of Delhi University, with former Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental in the lead.<br />
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Why is the DMH-11, the &ldquo;herbicide tolerant&rdquo; mustard, which received the green signal from the GEAC (Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee) dangerous? The WHO has labelled glyphosate as a carcinogen and there is incontrovertible field evidence from Argentina, which cultivates a lot of GM soybean, commercially known as &ldquo;Round Up Ready&rdquo; soybean. The herbicide Round Up led to multitudes of grave birth defects in children. When a sarson farmer grows DMH-11, he is advised to spray the herbicide Basta which kills weeds and plants, except the GM mustard. The herbicide is manufactured by Bayer, the German agro-chemical company which recently acquired Monsanto. Basta&rsquo;s chemical constituent is glufosinate&mdash;a neurotoxin on the same platform as glyphosate.<br />
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Beware the kill switch of agriculture -Prabhakaran Nair

-The Indian Express Makka ki roti aur sarson ka sag is a popular food item in northern India, in particular, Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh where both maize and mustard are widely grown. All vegetarian dishes made in much of northern, eastern and western India are cooked in mustard (sarson) oil. Why, suddenly, has mustard taken centre stage? GM mustard has begun to stir both the scientific and activist lobbies, the latter vehemently against it, while the former is keeping its fingers crossed. This piece is about the now controversial Dhara GM mustard hybrid-11 or DMH-11, developed by scientists of Delhi University, with former Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental in the lead. Why is the DMH-11, the “herbicide tolerant” mustard, which received the green signal from the GEAC (Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee) dangerous? The WHO has labelled glyphosate as a carcinogen and there is incontrovertible field evidence from Argentina, which cultivates a lot of GM soybean, commercially known as “Round Up Ready” soybean. The herbicide Round Up led to multitudes of grave birth defects in children. When a sarson farmer grows DMH-11, he is advised to spray the herbicide Basta which kills weeds and plants, except the GM mustard. The herbicide is manufactured by Bayer, the German agro-chemical company which recently acquired Monsanto. Basta’s chemical constituent is glufosinate—a neurotoxin on the same platform as glyphosate. A parallel is GM brinjal, peddled by Mahyco (Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company), an arm of Monsanto, during UPA-II. Late Chief Justice of India Y K Sabharwal, responding to a PIL, noted that the entire question of GM crops must be examined by an independent expert committee. A committee was formulated by the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Hyderabad; I was unanimously chosen as its chairman. The committee found several lapses, in field data and laboratory biosafety evaluation, and submitted its report to the Supreme Court in October 2006. I also wrote an open letter to the Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh against Bt brinjal, published in The New Indian Express on February 9, 2010. All of these efforts led to the clamping of an indefinite moratorium on Bt brinjal on February 10, 2010, which stands to date. And now, the haste and secrecy with which the GEAC is moving on mustard gives rise to much suspicion. Please click here to read more.