Michael Meacher, the UK Environment Minister, said today [Monday] that the US was putting pressure on the UK to go ahead with commercial plantings of genetically modified crops.
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In an interview with the Independent newspaper, Meacher said he was sceptical of the benefits of GM and that any decisions to open up commercial plantings would be “based on hard evidence”.
“We are not going to be bounced into this by the Americans,” Meacher told the newspaper.
Asked whether the US was putting the pressure on for expanded GM production, Meacher said: “Well, you know there is. The Americans are very keen. The amount of prairies which have been cultivated with GM is colossal.”
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