GM Debate: Does the Govt Really Want Your Views?

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Monday, 02 June 2003

It's obscure. It's small scale. It's been starved of funds. It has not been nationally advertised. In fact, it hasn't been advertised at all. You could be forgiven for thinking the Government doesn't want you to know about it.

Yet this is the National GM Debate. Starting tomorrow, it will be the only official chance people will have to make their views known over whether genetically modified crops should be commercially grown in Britain.

Entitled "GM Nation" and based on a series of conferences and meetings around the country, the debate comes at a crucial moment. After four years of delay, the decision on whether or not widespread GM farming can go ahead in Britain will be taken at the end of the summer. It will have huge environmental, ethical and socio-economic implications.

Source: Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor The Independent For full story go to: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=411590

[Six regional conferences will take place: conferences in Birmingham (June 3), Swansea (June 5), Taunton (June 7), Belfast (June 9), Glasgow (June 11), Harrogate (June 13). To book tickets please call Ms Lee Hancock on 020 7261 8528]