GM crop trial locations may be hidden from public

Government plans clampdown on vandalism after lobbying from biotech firms

Genetically modified crops may be grown in hidden locations in Britain amid fears that anti-GM campaigners are winning the battle over the controversial technology, the Guardian has learned.

Officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed they are looking at a range of options to clamp down on vandalism to GM crop trials, after intense lobbying by big crop biotech companies. The firms have warned that trials ... Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

It is interesting that the Brittle government is contemplating helping big agrobusiness hide their plots of genetically modified organisms. The article give no mention of the GM hazards of cross-fertilization, suicide genes, nutritional degradation, seed patent dependence, or unintended random genetic mutations or the measures to prevent them.

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