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  • From: Martin Naylor <martinwnaylor@yahoo.com.au>
  • To: Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] war
  • Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:55:34 -0700 (PDT)

Did the Prince blue the Princess
Think about war and what war is
Do we need another one
The war to end all wars
Charles in GM 'disaster' warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7557644.stm

Companies developing genetically modified crops risk creating the
biggest environmental disaster "of all time", Prince Charles has
warned.

GM crops were damaging Earth's soil and were an experiment "gone
seriously wrong", he told the Daily Telegraph.

A future reliance on corporations to mass-produce food would drive
millions of farmers off their land, he said.

The government said it welcomed all voices in the "important" debate
over the future potential role of GM crops.

However, BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the prince's
"robust" comments were "likely to rankle with the government", which
has given the go-ahead to a number of GM crop trials in the UK since
2000.


"Even for a prince who's a long-established champion of organic
farming and critic of GM crops, these are comments which verge on the
extreme," our correspondent said.

Prince Charles told the paper huge multi-national corporations
involved in developing genetically modified foods were conducting a
"gigantic experiment with nature and the whole of humanity which has
gone seriously wrong".

Relying on "gigantic corporations" for food would end in "absolute
disaster", he warned.
 


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