Modified foods claims criticised

Genetically modified crop varieties will never end world hunger, despite media claims by Monsanto and other multinational agri…

Genetically modified crop varieties will never end world hunger, despite media claims by Monsanto and other multinational agri-businesses, according to a group of Irish Third World groups and research institutes.

Action Aid Ireland, Concern Worldwide, UCC's International Famine Centre, Development Studies Centre, Kimmage Manor, and ocaire Trocaire have denounced as "dangerous fiction" Monsanto's recent "Let the Harvest Begin" campaign, claiming that European consumers are selfishly denying the benefits of new modified crops to the third world.

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