New Scientist May 18, 2002 - Much of the British countryside may be off-limits to genetically modified crops before the government even decides if they can be grown commercially. The reason is organic farming, which is becoming ever more popular in Britain. If it continues to boom, many potential GM crop sites will disappear, a computer model suggests. For instance, GM maize cannot be planted within 200 metres of organic crops. This buffer zone is designed to prevent the GM crops cross-fertilising with their neighbours, "contaminating" produce.</p><p><a href="http://www.zs-l.de/gmo/downloads/squeezedout_ns.pdf">Full text of the New Scientist article</a>