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Bunk. GM crops show great promise in actually reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides and also offer the prospect of growing more food on less land. A win-win for the environment right?

WRONG!

What leading scientists and public figures have said about the dangers of genetically modified foods

I'd trust the source if these weren't the same folks so wrong about anti-missle defense. The fact remains that in all the years since biotechnology took off, not one person has fall ill or died from eating a GM food. Sure there are risks but there are also benefits and when we have a planet on which people go with empty bellies to bed every night we have a duty to make sure they have adequate and nutritious diets. Right now in the 21st century we have the means for the first time in human history to deal with the age old scourge of hunger with science. Domestication itself is a product of human action and biotechnology is exactly in this vein albeit on a more sophisticated level. We're improving both the quantity and the quality of the world's foodstuffs and not one of the critics can give a sound reason why that ought not to be done.