Seeds of discontent

Speaking in the House of Commons about genetically-modified (GM) crops, environment minister Michael Meacher said: ‘It is false to pretend that there is any distance which is going to prevent some contamination,’ the problem, rather, being to minimise this ‘to a level which is acceptable to those buying the product because it is they [who] have to determine what degree of GM in a non-GM food is acceptable to them.’