The municipal council of Pili, Camarines Sur, has junked the petition of an organic farming group to stop the field trial for genetically-modified Bacillus thuringiensis eggplant variety at a local college campus. Pili Vice Mayor Ronaldo Boclot said [...] said the Sangguniang Bayan had considered the plea of the farmer-scientist group Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (Masipag), but ruled that the group ”failed to show and present clear proof of the alleged detrimental effects to humans if they eat or consume Bt talong (eggplant).”