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<pre>It has been suggested to me that the threat to the olive oil industry is not
from GM olive trees but from canola or some other oil seed crop that has the
olive oil gene spliced into it. In the market olive oil - even the worse
grades of sansa mix fetch a price about double that of other oils. As annual
crops a olive look alike would be quick to breed and as an annual crop would
pay royalty each year to the breeder.
Of course if this were to happen it would be like so much else in the GM
story and the premium for olive oil look alike would quickly disappear as
the market was flooded with it. The oil seed producers would be back to
where they were before and the market for low grade olive oil would be
destroyed and the GM companies would have a nice fat profit.

Cheers Brian Chatterton
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<pre>Hi Brian

are you referring to the high oleic acid (90%) type of canola? Research
into new soy beans has also provided high oleic acid soy oil.







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