Earlier this month, Bruce and his colleagues at Rothamsted wrote to anti-GM campaigners and recorded a video in which they pleaded with protesters not to destroy the trials.
I'm also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid-1990s and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment.
She also pointed out that a GM flax crop, called CDC Triffid, was originally grown on a small-scale in Canada in 2001, but was later found to have contaminated some non-GM crops.
If fish are fed on the oil from GM plants in future, they might not need to be labelled as GM-derived, because cattle today are widely fed on GM soya, but are not required to reveal this on labels".
It also accepts there could have been examples of damage to non-target insects, and has been cross-pollination with non-GM plants.
"The people who consider themselves leaders in the anti-GM movement today, I trained them".
A review of 24 studies of health impacts of GM food found "no statistically significant differences between GM and non-GM crops within the parameters observed" (my italics), however other studies have been "inconclusive".
It seems the pro-GM lobby is gaining momentum.
And anti-GM activists are unabashed.
The area sown with them worldwide last year was up by a startling 20% on 2003, to 81m hectares.So says the ISAAA (a pro-GM body but the best source of data there is).
Analysis of the resulting images, carried out in conjunction with Allan Bromley, a computer scientist at Sydney University, found the exact position of each gear, and suggested that Price was wrong in several respects.In this section The clockwork computer Better dead than GM-fed?
