GM industry will not solve world’s food problems

FINE GAEL agriculture and food spokesman Michael Creed claims that Prince Charles’s warning of the perils of GM food is “scaremongering” and “unhelpful to the GM debate”.

But are his claims of jobs losses helpful and not just scaremongering? A naive faith in technological magic bullets is just as irrational as opposing GM simply because it is unnatural, not that the prince takes such a simplistic view.

It is ingenuous to believe the advertising of agro-chemical companies. They are not humanitarian organisations — they are in business to make money.