GM foods should be banned, say doctors

THE Irish Doctors’ Environmental Association does not agree with the recent assertion by Prof David McConnell that we need GM foods for the 800 million starving people in the world.

People are starving because of unjust economic policies, not because they lack genetically engineered foods. These foods have never been tested for adverse health impact on humans and animal tests have given rise to concern.

Our association wants a complete ban on the growing of these plants and the sale of foods containing such products.