Robert Green says The industry strongly supports GM canola on the basis that market choice is delivered - that is, all customer requirements and specifications are met, including those wishing to purchase GM and non-GM product - by using our world-class grain production, handling, transport and processing protocols and procedures," Mr Green said. How about the 85% of consumers who don't want a bar of your G M Canola Mr Green? When you and your mates have finally polluted the Victorian landscape with your G M crops how much choice will your consumers have? I heard that! Take it or leave it, Eh? You didn't mention the years that Canadian Wheat farmers lost their markets in Europe Mr Green. Three million tons I believe. Their market may grow as long as you can keep the idea of labeling out of the public eye. If that comes in you and your G M growing mates go down the tube. Your "world class" processing and transport procedures have already stuffed up with the appearance of contamination already, so what value do we put on your words Mr Green?

The only thing vital about GM canola is that it be declared a noxious weed. Every effort must be made to stamp it out before it contaminates other crops and roadsides.

The only benefit of GM canola is that you can flood it with Roundup and it still grows. How does it improve sustainability? "GM crops have been grown, traded and consumed globally since 1996" - and now we are wondering: why is the number of cancer deaths increased so much in the developed world over the same period of time.

Robert Green is also the general manager of grain trader Cargill Australia which has had numerous global alliances with Monsanto for more than a decade.

You can view these by googling 'Monsanto Cargill'.

Green says GM canola seed and volunteer plants spilled in our environment are 'a fact of life' and meet 'agreed standards and thresholds'. That is intolerable arrogance.

The public was never asked nor agreed to irreversible GM contamination of our environment.

Roundup tolerant feral GM canola, plus the wild radish and turnip to which it will outcross, will be managed at community expense by gardeners, non-GM farmers, beekeepers, seed cleaners, grain harvesters, local councils, and road and rail bodies. Some GM-free food markets will disappear.

The Brumby Government should make Monsanto strictly liable to pay for the impacts and cleanup of GM canola contamination, no questions asked. But Brumby and Minister Helper refuse to take any action at all. That's unacceptable.

GM canola is different enough to secure patents and different enough to avoid national variety trials which every other grain/seed crop must proceed through before commercialisation. But claimed not to be different to avoid truthful labelling, clinical human health trials and environmental impact studies. So too, has GM cotton avoided such studies. So Mr Green claims the protocols and procedures have been proven and agreed to. Well Mr Green show us your numbers. Both the Western and Eastern panels which developed the GM Canola Stewardship Protocols failed to ratify their own work. The VFF has certainly failed to deliver on its policy to seek independent comparative trials and to require all crop varieties (both non-gm and gm) to undergo national variety trials before commercialisation. Nor has the VFF polled its entire membership regarding the introduction of GM canola or any other gm crop for that matter. It has managed to leave the non-gm growers out in the cold and without a lobbying voice to provide non-gm grower protection from contamination. And where is Min Helper and Premier Brumby? It's about time those two took responsibility for the havoc they have created in this state. How do these unethical people ever sleep at night? Working with nature may be fraught with sleepless nights about the future but it's nothing compared to the anguish that comes with having to deal with the power and greed of the multi-national transgenic corporations and our governments who have not been getting enough omega 3's for their brains to develop properly and operate clearly and with mankind's prosperity and potential in mind. $$$$$ are rolling around the eyeballs - guess they'll get their comeupance at some point. It's just sad to see all those less powerful who have to suffer first at their hands.

The only thing sustainable about GM is the potential cashflow for those with a finger in the pie, and do these "proven and agreed protocols and procedures" also originate from the same source?

I'm not sure which customers Mr Green believes will be served by GM crops as I have yet to find a consumers group, or market, that is demanding them. In fact, the opposite is happening, with many people globally opposing this product being foisted, unlabelled, upon us. And Mr Green believes that we have to accept contamination as ' a fact of life'? The fact is that before the introduction of this technology we had 0pc contamination guaranteed. Now we have to accept up to 0.9pc ...that does not meet my requirements, nor that of GM-free farmers.

Beware the seed merchant who supports GM!

Roundup tolerant, feral GM canola, plus the wild radish and turnip to which it will outcross, will be managed at community expense by gardeners, non-GM farmers, beekeepers, seed cleaners, grain harvesters, local councils, and road and rail bodies. Some GM-free food markets will disappear. But GM canola is no more susceptable to outcrossing than non-GM canola. I have had extensive GM canola experience in Canada and haven't ever seen any out-crossing with GM or IT canola. Also, the OGTR dealt with all this years ago.

Australia has shown the world it is mature and no longer panders to minority Green groups who are ideologically opposed to anything that is progressive. Guess what, Bob, no-one understands you and you have convincingly lost this battle. We are a proud GM country!! Gee i heard Bayer are also in the mix, those hybrids really do yeild!

Do any of you people posting know how effective Roundup is in controlling conventional canola? I'll give you a hint - it doesn't kill it. The same for wild radish and wild turnip of any size. So any herbicide that is used to kill conventional canola will also control GM canola. And as for the hysteria about GM canola oil, any ideas on how much genetic material oil contains? Another hint - none. And finally, ask any farmer if he gets any premium at all from any market in the world for having GM free canola. The answer is he will get paid exactly the same as a Canadian farmer growing GM canola. So the markets aren't that sensitive to GM crops. Oh, and if you hadn't noticed, there is a bigger crisis in the world than the Global Financial Crisis. It's called the Global Food Shortage. If we don't use every technology at our disposal - including GM and pesticides - how do those of you who are against GM crops propose to feed the world. Remembering if the scientists are right about climate change, we will have ever-decreasing areas of arable land. And the population continues to increase exponentilally, so that we will be going from the current 2.5ha of arable land per person to less than 0.5ha by 2030. As soon as I get an answer to that, I'll agree to moratoria on GM food crops.