GM lobby helped draw up crucial report on Britain's food supplies

It's a global fascist/corporatist tyranny. This is how they do business here in Amurr'ca as well. The banks write the laws regarding financial regulation and "reform" - banksters wrote the Federal Reserve Act of 1910, which was supposed to end bank runs, depressions and economic turmoil forever. Big LOLs there. Pharmaceutical corporations write medical laws, as well as the curriculum for medical schools. This is why doctors don't learn how to heal; they learn how to be drug dealers for Big Pharma. The fascist octopus has its tentacles around every aspect of human existence.

Email trail shows how biotech group helped watchdog to draw up analysis of GM crops ... and prompted two advisers to quit


Genetically modified soybeans seeds at a farm in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

London Guardian -

A powerful lobbying organisation representing agribusiness interests helped draft a key government report that has been attacked by environmentalists for heavily favouring the arguments of the genetically modified food industry.

The revelation comes after the resignation of two government advisers who have criticised the close relationship between the Food Standards Agency (FSA), the body that oversees the UK's food industry, and the GM lobby.

Emails between the FSA and the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) show the council inserted key sentences strengthening the case for GM food that ended up in the final report.

The report, "Food Standards Agency work on changes in the market and the GM regulatory system", examines how GM products are entering the UK, where the growing of GM products is banned, through the animal feed system. It acknowledges food prices could go up if GM products continue to be excluded.

Emails from the council – which represents leading GM food companies such as Monsanto and Bayer – to Dr Clair Baynton, the then head of novel foods at the FSA, show a close dialogue between both sides between 2008 and August 2009, when the report was published.

On 19 November 2008, Baynton sent the council a draft of the report, saying: "I am happy to discuss… if that would be helpful."

In response, the council suggested a series of changes that emphasised how GM food was playing an increasingly important role in global agriculture and helping bring down food prices. Some of the amendments were rejected by the FSA, but others were accepted.

One accepted alteration acknowledged the GM lobby's argument that GM food is inevitable in the European Union because of its ubiquity elsewhere. It stated that "retailers were concerned they may not be able to maintain their current non-GM sources of supply as producers increasingly adopt GM technology around the world".

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