Monsanto ‘represented Ireland at WTO talks’

THE Irish delegation to world trade talks included a representative of Monsanto corporation, the US firm pioneering genetically-modified (GM) crops, it was claimed yesterday.

Senator David Norris challenged the Government to explain why Monsanto representative Mella Frewen was part of the Irish team at the World Trade Organisation talks in Hong Kong last December.

“I think that’s disgraceful,” Mr Norris told a press conference organised by GM-free Ireland Network.