The Government should also stop hiding behind the mask of science. There are many scientific arguments which show that unleashing unknown agents into the environment is risky. Greenpeace is not, and never has been, against science. We have no objections to GM research, especially in the medical field, providing it is in the laboratory, in a contained environment. But large GM field experiments may cause irreversible genetic pollution, all for the sake of a product that is unwanted by consumers.
Agriculture is at a crossroads.
We do not have the option of growing both organic and GM food. Planting fields with GM crops will contaminate wild plants and organic crops. The UK Agriculture minister has said that people have the absolute right to buy foods which are not contaminated by GM crops. The market for GM crops and food in the UK is virtually non-existent and there is little prospect that it will change. This makes no sense even as a business choice, let alone an environmental one.