Article by Dr Helen Wallace, Director of GeneWatch
Across the Western world, governments and food agencies are proving too supine to challenge the spread of GM technology.
Brave words about protecting the consumer have turned out to be empty. Resistance to those who wish to manipulate what we eat and drink is giving way to collusion.
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These retailers had initially seemed reluctant to sell us these products, but they are beginning to cave in to pressure from the global food industry.
Asda and Morrisons sell chickens that have been reared on genetically modified feed produced from GM soya made by U.S. company Monsanto, and last week three of the other big chains ? Tesco, Marks & Spencer and the Co-op ? announced they are going to do the same.
Worse still, they will not even label this meat as ?GM fed?.
At Sainsbury?s, just one brand of chicken will be free from GM input. Indeed, the only supermarket resisting the slide into this troubling new world is Waitrose.
The move by most retailers towards an embrace of GM foods represents something serious as it undermines consumer choice
The move by most retailers towards an embrace of GM foods represents something serious as it undermines consumer choice. Without proper labelling, shoppers can?t avoid eating GM-fed animals.
It also opens the way to the domination of the food industry by biotech companies. Chicken feed is just the start.
Once that precedent is established, the big firms will move on to all other types of livestock, in the process building a monopoly over feed supplies, as natural feed suppliers are forced out of business.
This will make a mockery of the claim that GM technology will lead to lower prices. Once a monopoly or a cartel is created, there will be no real competition. We will all be at the mercy of the GM stranglehold.
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