what upsets people about plants, a selection of News items gathered on May 29, 2008:

  * GM crops banned in Switzerland until 2012
  * top chefs say no to GM foods
  * Fed report climate threats to crops and harvesting.
  * diesel prices tipped affect winter crops
  * marijuana growing in Coolidge.
  * snack cucumber prices rise 90% in Turkey
  * vandalism to school garden
  * marines and Taliban cash crops
  * Chelsea flower show, rarest blooms tied up with red ribbon.
  * greenhouse sabotage shocks Carolina grower.
  * invasive plants in Pembroke
  * Iowa crops expected to survive tornado damage.
  * invasion of foreign flowers costs Britain 2bn a year
  * Balchik botanical garden dispute solved after years
  * Glasgow garden to commemorate war tragedy
  * as food prices shoot up so do backyard gardens according to National Gardening Association.
  * Dutch busdrivers go on back-garden-strikes.
  * San Jose police arrest peeping Tom suspect in bushes.
  * 14 year old raped in bushes.
  * Manitoba forest fire evacuation
  * Petition against Canadian Forest minister.
  * Dutch firm strengthens its hold on Congo forest.
  * Relief for boy and dog after night lost in forest.
  * carbon credit could help develop congo.
  * Minneapolis grave robbers are going for the flowers.
  * Tree kills 13 year old girl in Huddersfield park
  * Golf cart hits tree, 3-foot branch impales man rushed into Hennepin County medical center.
  * three injured when tree hits theme-park trolley
  * tree near Route 97 light construction to be removed.
  * Maple Leaf Community Council fights Town house developer who wants to cut down trees.
  * The owner of 200 acres in Vicksburg says a logging company cut down 1oo trees and tried to steel them.
  * Wadena trees have insect problem.
  * A millionaire businessman (carwash king) threatened to break the neck of a gardener and threw handfuls of rocks at him while he chopped down a dead tree on his neighbour's property.
  * An Omaha man said a court forced him to cut a tree in half after a neighbor complained that it was damaging his lawn.
  * Crushed property. We're talking about a tree on the 300 block of Batavia in the Old West End. It fell on his property during a storm, and it's still there.
  * Swedish Spruce is world's oldest tree.
  * Too much tree felling say Upper Norwood residents.
  * Planted rose hips cause overpopulation of white-footed mice and deer.
  * Overgrown shrubs on memorial.
  * A gardening body is warning it may have to take legal action if Wales' growing demand for allotments is not met.
  * Allotment holders forced off their plots to make way for the Olympics have claimed the land in Leyton provided as a replacement is unusable.
  * Brown grass is spoiling beauty of Balboa Park's west side
  * Southaven Residentes Fed Up With Unsightly, Overgrown Grass
  * Bad pitch ruins Champions-league final.