Just how 'anti-science' is it to worry about GM crops? (Jonathon Porritt)

The pro-GM lobby has always had an almost unique capacity to shoot itself in the foot. From Monsanto's original bully-boy tactics trying to force its GM products on reluctant EU countries back in the 1990s, through to today's inept combination of legal threats and would-be seduction, it knows how to alienate people more effectively than any other industry sector. And Dick Taverne operates very comfortably in that tradition, with a show of arrogance that beggars belief.