GM nonsense from Channel 4

After the nonsense on Channel 4 re climate change - see my blog on 14th March - they have done another programme that leaves much to be desired!! This time on GM - I've already had 2 people ask what I thought - well I didn't see it but apparently the programme 'Animal Farm' accused anti-GM lobbyists of wanting to hold back scientific progress.

Photo: GM Tomato paste launched a while back by Sainsburys

Well this really is a load of tosh - The Ecologist magazine online have interviewed Jonathan Matthews, founder and editor of the GM-Watch website. He writes: "GMOs are no more "science" than washing machines, cars, DDT or nuclear weapons. They're technological products. They may draw on scientific knowledge but they need to be evaluated on their own merits. If we judge nuclear weapons to be a dangerous misappliance of science, that doesn't involve us in rejecting the laws of physics!"

He goes onto write that: "much hyped GM "solutions" that attract tons of media attention are actually expensive hi-tech distractions from simpler and far less risky ways of tackling the problem."

Read the full article which tackles the programme in much more detail here.