An NOP poll commissioned by the pressure group shows that 67 per cent of Britons want a ban on GM crops being fed to livestock, and that 55 per cent do not want to eat meat, eggs or dairy products from animals that have eaten them. Ninety per cent of respondents said that any products from animals that had been GM-fed should be labelled as such. Our battle against GM crops is a fight for the future of British farming. The public doesn't want GM food, the supermarkets don't want it, and no farmer wants to grow things that nobody wants to buy. GM crops should now be consigned to the dustbin of history as a technology that went wrong.
Nobody wants a criminal conviction.
I was surprised by the verdict. The 28 campaigners, including a housewife, a grandfather, a Baptist minister and 12 members of Greenpeace, had admitted destroying six acres of GM maize at a farm at Lyng, near Norwich, in April 1999. The activists were confronted by the farm's owners and arrested when police were called to the scene and Lord Melchett spent two nights in jail. All the protesters were cleared of theft at Norfolk Crown Court in April and of causing criminal damage last week. They were 12 members of the public who listened to fiercely-contested arguments over two and a half weeks, away from all the propaganda.