Ross Clark Ross Clark

Globophobia | 11 October 2003

A weekly survey of world restrictions on freedom and free trade

issue 11 October 2003

Ninety-eight per cent of the British population, according to the results of the government’s ‘national debate’, say that they do not wish to eat genetically modified food. Eighty-four per cent say that GM food is ‘an unacceptable interference with nature’, and 93 per cent say that not enough is known about the long-term health effects of GM foods.

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