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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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- [Livingontheland] war, Martin Naylor, 08/18/2008
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