Tories and Labour renew backing for GM food crops

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Tories and Labour renew backing for GM food crops

January 6th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Farming minister tells conference GM can help meet rising food demand, while Mary Creagh MP calls for ‘open mind’ on GM

guardian.co.uk
5 January 2012

Controversial genetically modified food crops could help to massively increase food production to meet growing populations and consumption, politicians from both major parties said on Wednesday.

Speaking at the annual Oxford Farming Conference, agriculture minister Jim Paice said the promised benefits of GM varieties – which would need less nitrogen fertiliser, pesticides or fresh water than non-GM foods – could not be ignored, as demand was rising and pressure on resources and land increasing.

“GM is not the answer to everything, but in the foreseeable future we’ll have nitrogen-fixing wheat – if that isn’t going to be a major development I don’t know what is,” said Paice. “It’s going to be a big challenge for the industry and consumers as to whether they are prepared to welcome that for the major environmental gains against the concerns people have against GM.”

With “sustainable intensification” of farming a top conference theme, Paice said the UK wanted the European Union to agree to lift restrictions on trials and sale of GM products, so countries like the UK could “do it’s own thing” so “we can use this technology where appropriate”.

But he said supermarkets needed to take the lead on introducing GM food for sale more widely. “Whatever the government says about, GM the public will never believe it – but perversely they believe very strongly that what goes on a supermarket shelf is good to eat and safe to eat,” he said.