GM Nation Report Shows Little Support

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Thursday, 25 September 2003

The government-sponsored national debate about genetically modified crops and foods has found that many people in the UK have reservations about the technology.

The six-week-long GM Nation? debate also found that the more people were informed about GM technology, the more sceptical they became about it, reported Reuters.

"Across the different elements of the debate, participants expressed unease about GM," the report from the government's steering committee said. "The mood ranged from caution to doubt, through suspicion and scepticism, to hostility and rejection," it said.

More than half of all participants said they were opposed to the growing of GM crops under any circumstances. The vast majority (86%) of participants said they did not want to eat GM food, while only 2% said they would be happy to eat it.

"There is little support for the early commercialisation of GM crops," the report said.

Source: just-food.com