Public debate: Why we oppose GM crops

Last edited 24 May 2003 at 8:00am
Oil seed rape

Oil seed rape

GM crops pose unpredictable and irreversible long-term risks to environmental and human health.

GM crops are new life forms that have never occurred in nature, created by a technique that allows scientists to insert foreign genes into random positions in the DNA of a host.

GM enables scientists to bypass natural selection and evolution by transferring genes from species that would never normally breed together. Once these self-replicating man-made organisms are released into the environment and the food chain there is no way of recalling them and no one knows what the long-term effects of GM crops on the environment or our health will be.

 

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