We'll Wheat Again
- Published on Friday, 23 September 2011
Graphic by Nick Buchanan
GM crop makers are helping us again – isn’t science great!
The UK government has agreed SECRET trials of Genetically Modified wheat, which will begin next year (2012). The chosen site is Rothamsted Research farm in Harpenden (a three acre site) which will be guarded by police and protected by a high wire fence. No peeking ‘til they’re finished. I’m sure it will be a great surprise!
At the same time the University of Leeds and the Sainsbury Laboratory at the John Innes centre in Norwich will also be running GM trials (in pest resistant and blight resistant potatoes respectively).
Isn’t it reassuring that large corporations like Mon$anto (who choose not to be profiteering and exploitative) are busy helping people! I for one am happy spending my taxes paying for a police service which acts as security for GM companies (or any other large corporations for that matter).
I look forward to buying my non-germinating crops from them, knowing that they will be pest resistant and free from blight.
What happened to Ol’ Blighty?
(source: What Doctors Don’t Tell You – September 2011)