GM refused?

Bad news for the government. After deciding, in the face of overwhelming public opposition, to allow a strain of GM maize to be grown in the UK the company that developed the GMO may withdraw it. The reason is significant. The biotech company who produced the crop, Bayer CropScience, made it clear that unless the strict controls for growing the crops are relaxed, it will abandon the technology in Britain.

Two things should be noted. Firstly, the initial tests which the government said proved that the GM maize was safe were flawed. They used a pesticide so toxic it is now banned by the EU. Secondly, the biotech government wants the rigorous testing conditions which produced the (flawed) result in favour of the maize to be relaxed. So what does even this flawed testing prove if the "listening" government capitulates and allows the crops be grown in another way?

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