Bristol boffin lists GM benefits

29 September 1999

Bristol boffin lists GM benefits

A SENIOR research scientist from the agriculture department at the University of Bristol details the benefits of various genetically modified crops.

He argues that the advantages of the crops used in the US would help British farmers.

This “cannot be ignored” by anyone concerned with the environment and the sustainability of agriculture, he adds.

• GM benefits may be 10 years away, FWi, 09 July 1999
• Government admits GM cross-pollination danger, FWi, 17 June 1999
• `Moral duty to grow GM food – report, FWi,
  27 May 1999

• Government approves new GM code, FWi, 21 May 1999
  
• The Times 28/09/99 page 19 (Letters)