Ferris warns against GM crops

ANY genetically modified crop grown here will affect conventional crops of the same species, Sinn Féin’s agriculture spokesman, Martin Ferris, has claimed.

He said scientific research clearly shows that cross contamination is impossible to prevent. Given the clear opposition of consumers to GM, this will have serious and damaging consequences for the sale of Irish food.

Meanwhile, the World Trade Organisation has ruled that the European Union illegally stopped imports of genetically modified organisms from the United States. It followed a complaint from the US, Canada and Argentina that an EU moratorium on GM food crops, in place from 1998 to 2004, was about protectionism, not science.