Thu, 19 Feb 2004

Government 'to back GM crops'

Sometimes it seems like nobody gets it ... the danger from GM crops isn't that consumers will be poisoned or anything silly like that, the danger is that they'll drive out and/or mutate their natural "competition", the crops genetically modified by Nature over the past few million years.

We panic about biodiversity in the Amazon, and then seem to do our level best to destroy it in our own fields and backyards. There was one very observant quote in the article, however:

But Professor Vivian Moses, from the advisory body on biotech agriculture, said most people were "remarkably uninterested" in GM and "do not bother to read labels".

The government could back the limited use of GM crops, according to minutes leaked to the BBC.

(link) [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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