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Spentastic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 06:41 AM
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Government to allow GM foods
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3501669.stm

"Minutes of a Cabinet committee meeting seen by BBC Two's Newsnight suggest qualified approval for sowing GM maize is imminent."

A previous study showing that the British public's overwhelming distrust is now being ignored as Tony Blair continues to sell out to big business.

After Blair's removal of Meacher this was bound to happen. Maragret Becket stated "there was no scientific case for a ban."

So that's O.K

This government are an absolute disgrace.
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whatelseisnew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-19-04 07:30 AM
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1. If people were informed, they'd be remarkably interested

(from the article)

The control crop grown alongside GM maize in farm-scale evaluation (FSE) trials had been sprayed with the weed killer atrazine, which had since been by banned throughout the European Union - invalidating the results, he added.
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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".
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