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Brit supermarkts 'too hasty' in rejecting GM
Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:00 pm
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Speaking in a panel debate after delivering the City Food Lecture in London, Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy has admitted UK supermarkets may have made the decision to reject GM products too hastily and signalled Tesco is willing to re-open the debate. "It may have been a failure of us all to stand by the science", he said.

Former Food Standards Agency chairman professor Lord John Krebs, who also took part in the debate, said: "The moral tragedy of the whole GM debacle was the fact that European prissiness about genetic modification has affected its adoption in Africa." National Farmers' Union president Peter Kendall highlighted the irony that meat from animals in South America fed on GM feed unauthorised in Europe could still be legally imported into the EU - and at more competitive prices.

Former Unilever chief scientist professor Peter Lillford, chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC's) food steering group, predicted the supermarkets would be forced into a u-turn on GM in an interview with Food Manufacture last month: "The supermarkets are going to have to do a u-turn on GM I'd say in the next three years. We're in a ludicrous position. Go to India or South America and talk about this and you realise it really is a British backyard issue on the world stage."

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