GM crops U-turn by FF deputies

YOUR report headlined ‘FF TDs support GM crops despite Government line’ (July 3) highlights how the disease of amnesia often strikes our politicians.

In the run-up to the general election in 1997, Fianna Fáil published a policy paper which said “it would be premature to release genetically modified organisms into the environment or to market food which contained any genetically modified ingredients”.

The reason they gave was: “Current scientific knowledge is inadequate to protect the consumer and the environment from the unpredictable and potentially disastrous side-effects which may appear immediately or at any time in the future… This will be too late for the victims. Fianna Fáil will not support what amounts to the largest nutritional experiment in human history with the consumer as guinea pig.”