CHEF Lorcan Cribbin’s concerns about unbalanced Government funding of the UCC agriculture biotechnology conference (August 25) are hard to swallow as he expressed no concerns when the Government supported an unbalanced anti-GM food conference on June 16-18, 2006 at Kilkenny Castle, which the Government donated for free.

THE Government has been urged to implement legislation to prevent the release of genetically modified (GM) crops on this island.

A GOVERNMENT-sponsored conference on agricultural biotechnology opened at University College Cork amid protests by leading chefs at what they see as the promotion of genetically modified foods.

Irish diners have begun to eat more healthily, despite one in five adults now being considered obese, some of the country’s leading chefs said today.