The current food crisis is an extremely dangerous moment for the global environment and for our food supply. Biotech firms are licking their lips. After years of resistance, boycotts and studies casting doubt on the promise of GM crops, biotech boosters are now positioning the widely unpopular technology as a “savior” for the global poor. A savior, of course, which ensures a constant flow of rent payments to corporate shareholders. The British government is clearly in favor of pushing GM crops into the mainstream. Gordon Brown has said that “It has always been the government’s position, and continues to be the government’s position, that GM crops could offer a range of benefits over the longer term.” Activists in Britain have not halted planting of GM crops, but they have severely curtailed their use. Still, this utterance by Woolas shows that sustained activism will be essential to prevent the commercial mainstreaming of a potentially dangerous technology that we simply don’t need. Summary By Szamko ...
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