The British government is preparing to open the way for genetically modified crops on the grounds they could help combat the global food crisis.
At least that's according to Andrew Grice, Policitical Editor with The Independent, reporting on a meeting between Britian's Environment minister, Phil Woolas, and the Agricultural Biotechnology Council, amidst claims that "rocketing food prices and food shortages in the world's poorest countries mean the time is right to relax Britain's policy on use of GM crops."
As Graham Young, Chief Editor of e-journal On Line Opinion, recently emailed me, "With food shortages becoming the new Greenhouse type issue, I think that all is set to change. Governments will be throwing money at scientists who say they can feed the world, and it will become a new glamour industry... it is perhaps ironic that hard science, rather than computer modeling, might come back into vogue now that we have a real, rather than potential, problem."
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