Gene crops their own worst enemy

28 June 1999

‘Gene crops their own worst enemy’

GENETICALLY modified (GM) crops are likely to pose a danger to their own future, according to one letter writer to The Independent.

The writer details two occasions when he claims GM crops have been completely destroyed by their own susceptibility to pests and diseases.

Some GM seeds – of wheat and rice – were only saved for future generations after wild natural strains were bred back into the gene structure, he writes.

• The Independent 28/06/99 page 2 (Letters to the Editor)