What part of NO GM do you not understand?
July 13th, 2010The EU Commission decision to hand over to Member States the right to decide whether to accept the production of GM crops on their territory or to ban them is a mark of desperation which will not resolve the irreconcilable divide between pro- and anti- States. What is wrong about this contrivance is that it evades any decision on the basis of principle (i.e. whether GM food entails a risk to human health and to the environment, and how conventional and organic crops can be protected from contamination) and simply takes the unheroic line of least resistance. And for several reasons Britain emerges from this 12-year struggle with arguably the most dishonourable record in Europe. (more…)
