India and GM food: Without modification
• A setback for GM in India
The Economist [UK], 11 February 2010 :
…The moratorium is a victory for what has become India’s first nationwide anti-GM movement. After the GEAC judgment, consumers, medical groups, farmers and state governments mobilised at once to campaign against Bt Brinjal. Hindu-nationalist and Communist politicians rallied to the unmodified brinjal’s cause. Anti-GM groups cried foul over India’s lack of an independent biosafety regulator. They also argued that the guidelines for trials of GM foods are flawed and that studies revealing more about the long-term health dangers had been ignored…. more at link
India and GM food: Without modification | The Economist
