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Now, I did check with Andy before posting this link because I wrote the article and I didn't want to get in trouble.

No more trouble than I am usually in, anyway.

The French government managed to lose a vote on a law that would, basically, allow the cultivation of, inter alia, GM maize. They never got round to debating the law because it was chucked out on a proceedural point.

There are those who believe that this was not an entirely unwelcome happening for the Sarkozy regime because about 90% of the population don't want GM here but el Presidente didn't want to upset the Americans either.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/society/jo ... -crops.htm

Nice article, Jon. At last, I agree with the French on something. Not, mind you (to throw the cat amongst the pigeons) that I'm yet convinced by the anti-GM argument, but I have to wonder why, if GM techiques are so mind-bendingly good, the insecticide regime is necessary. However, I'm cynical enough to almost automatically take a stand against anything which is being pushed so hard by the US.

Good!

Good for them! I wholeheartedly concur with the "if the US is pushing it, it probably stinks" line, but probably more importantly I'm vehemently against GM crops (and nuclear power), because they are both "Pandora's Box" technologies - once they are "released" into nature, we can't put them back in the box.........
It's another one of those "freedom to choose" things - once GM is planted, it ruins the purity of organic crops, thus denying the right of people to choose to eat organically. Ironically, this is one of the arguments used by the GM lobby - that it should be allowed so people can "choose GM"........(quite as to WHY anyone should CHOOSE to eat GM is totally beyond me, but there you go)