Radio 4's Today programme disturbingly carried the report that Britain is going to force those European countries to lift their bans on GM crops. Behind this move is the US (no doubt prompted by US biotechnology firm Monsanto, which has been chipping away in the background for months on this subject). Sadly, no online report of this move has yet materialised - I'll keep an eye out for it today.
I thought democracy was about freedom of choice. Never mind my wish to have the choice to purchase British organic food that's genuinely organic; what about those organic farmers who will find themselves next door to a farm that's decided it wants to grow GM crops? You can talk about the GM farm's freedom of choice, but why should they inflict their choice on others? Until GM crops can be safely controlled and prevented from contaminating neighbouring crops, they should be kept at arm's length. Clearly our government - fresh from its embarrassing snub over climate change - has no influence in the halls of Washington, yet it still continues to do Bush's bidding. Way to go Blair...
Oh, and reports are coming in that Russia's population decline is accelerating - the equivalent of 100 people dying every hour (see here). As I see it, the Russians have the right idea - when will governments get it into their thick skulls that right now we should - at best - be consolidating the current population levels?
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