SECRET FILES REVEAL BRITISH GOVERNMENT COLLUSION WITH CORPORADOS OVER GM

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GEOFFREY LEAN, INDEPENDENT, UK - Ministers are secretly easing the way
for GM crops in Britain, while professing to be impartial on the
technology, startling internal documents reveal. The documents, obtained
through the Freedom of Information Act, show that the Government
colluded with a biotech company in setting conditions for testing GM
potatoes, and gives tens of millions of pounds a year to boost research
into modified crops and foods. . .

Publicly ministers claim to be neutral over GM. Four years ago, at the
height of controversy about plans to introduce modified crops to
Britain. . . But the documents show that ministers have been far from
even-handed. One set, obtained by the campaigning group GM Freeze,
clearly demonstrate that the Department of Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs (Defra) allowed the biotech giant BASF to help to set the
conditions for field trials it has conducted on modified potatoes. On 1
December last year the company was given permission to plant 450,000
modified potatoes in British fields over the next five years, in a
series of 10 trials. The set of emails and letters between Defra and the
company reveal that officials repeatedly went to remarkable lengths to
make sure the trial conditions, supposed to protect the environment and
farmers, were "agreeable" to BASF.

http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3104668.ece

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