Can GM feed the world?
No! GM seeds are expensive, can reduce yields and are often dependent on specific chemicals. Small farmers will need loans to buy them (as they have done for chemicals) and debt and dependency on large agrochemical companies will continue. Poverty is considered a main cause of hunger. Oxfam and Christian Aid have both warned that GM crops could intensify poverty in the developing world. What the papers say The results, in a new government report, show – for the first time in Britain – that genes from GM crops are interbreeding on a large scale with conventional ones, and also with weeds. The report is so devastating to the government’s case for GM crops that ministers last week sought to bury it by slipping the first information on it out on the DEFRA website on Christmas Eve, the one day of the year when no newspapers are being prepared. The Independent on Sunday, 29th December 2002 British scientific researchers have demonstrated for the first time that genetically modified DNA mater
