GM crops could lead to 'disaster': Prince Charles
The widespread use and development of genetically modified crops could lead to "the biggest disaster environmentally of all time," Prince Charles said Wednesday in an interview with a British newspaper. New experiments with GM crops could worsen food-supply problems, the heir to the British throne told the Daily Telegraph. "What we should be talking about is food security, not food production — that is what matters, and that is what people will not understand," he said. "And if they think it's somehow going to work because they are going to have one form of clever genetic engineering after another, then again, count me out, because that will be guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster environmentally of all time."
Note EU-Digest: The EU parliament holds similar views on genetically modified crops as Prince Charles but is constantly being bombarded by lobbyists from giant multi-national chemical corporations like Monsanto to change their position on this issue. We can only hope they won't eventually cave in under the pressure.
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