GM Won't Solve World Hunger

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Monday, 11 November 2002

Britain's top aid charities have told the Prime Minister that genetically modified foods will not solve world hunger, but may actually increase poverty and malnutrition. Their intervention – in a joint submission to the Government's official debate on GM crops and foods – strikes a devastating blow at a central plank of its support for the controversial technology.The new submission – signed by the directors of Oxfam, Christian Aid, Save the Children, Cafod and Action Aid, and sent to Mr Blair's Strategic Unit in the Cabinet Office – puts the moral and practical authority of leading anti-hunger crusaders against the Prime Minister.The charity leaders say claims that GM crops will feed the world are "misleading and fail to address the complexities of poverty reduction"

Source: The Independent on Sunday 10 Nov 02