Secret EU Plans To Boost GM Production

Posted on Wednesday, October 29 at 08:06 by Ed Deak


Europe's secret plan to boost GM crop production
Gordon Brown and other EU leaders in campaign to promote modified foods
By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 26 October 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/europes-secret-plan-to-boost-gm-crop-production-973834.html

(GM corn growing in France, which has since suspended cultivation of modified crops)

Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods in Britain and throughout the continent, confidential documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal.

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  1. by RickW
    Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:28 am
    The embattled biotech industry has been conducting a public relations campaign based round the highly contested assertion that genetic modification is needed to feed the world.


    Maybe, if the EU and the US quit subsidizing their agri-business, the world could begin to feed itself..............



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