Big Ag lobbyist wrote UK government’s report on GM foods

David Gutierrez
Natural News

Agribusiness lobbyists took an active role in writing a U.K. government report on genetically modified (GM) foods, two former members of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) steering group have revealed.

Dr. Helen Wallace of Genewatch U.K. and Professor Brian Wynne both resigned recently in protest of what Wynne calls a “dogmatically entrenched” pro-GM attitude at the FSA, whose head recently accused GM critics of being “anti-science.”

Leaked emails between the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) and then-FSA head of novel foods Clair Baynton “expose how the Food Standards Agency is acting as a puppet of the GM industry, by colluding with foreign GM companies to undermine people’s access to GM-free food supplies in Britain,” Wallace said.

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