Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Prince Charles: Genetically Modified Food 'Disaster' Britain’s Prince Charles has warned that the mass development of genetically modified crops could lead to the world’s worst environmental disaster. In an interview with Britain’s Daily Telegraph, Charles accused multi-national companies of conducting a “gigantic experiment I think with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong.” Small farmers would be the major victims if those corporations take over the mass production of food, the Prince declared. "That would be the absolute destruction of everything … and the classic way of ensuring there is no food in the future. "If they think it’s somehow going to work because they are going to have one form of clever genetic engineering after another, then count me out, because that will be guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster environmentally of all time … We [will] end up with millions of small farmers all over the world being driven off their land into unsustainable, unmanageable, degraded and dysfunctional [urban developments] of unmentionable awfulness." Many scientists believe genetically modified crops are the only way to guarantee food for the world's growing population as the planet is affected by climate change....Poor Diana, no wonder she ran off with an Arab.

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