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Corn Scandal  ABC News World News Tonight (6:30 PM ET) November
28, 2000, Tuesday  Hardships caused by Genetically-Altered corn,
StarLink, to Iowa Farmers   We're going to take A CLOSER LOOK at
corn tonight, genetically-engineered corn causing hardship. In
Washington today, environmental activists from Greenpeace showed
up at a government hearing on whether to approve a genetically-
altered corn, called StarLink, for human consumption. Greenpeace
is not in favor and we have reported before on the state of
alarm, justified or not, when StarLink showed up in food
products. The corn has now turned up in US-corn sold to Japan
and the Japanese have stopped importing it. In many cases, the
amount of StarLink is fairly small. But in some cases, a tiny
amount is contaminating a larger amount of acceptable corn and
it is driving farmers in Iowa crazy. In Iowa, StarLink corn
represented 1 percent of the total crop, only 1 percent. It has
tainted 50 percent