Paterson: GM health fears 'complete nonsense'

Concerns about the health implications of GM crops are "a complete nonsense" according to the UK environment secretary, Owen Paterson. "Empathically, we should be looking at GM…I'm very clear it would be a good thing," said Paterson in an interview. He also stressed that consumers were already eating GM food for sometime, with 160 million hectares of GM crops being grown globally. And thus, GM food should be grown and sold widely in the UK.

Paterson shares the same perspective about GM food with a number of his colleagues, including David Willetts, the science minister. "So you'd discuss it within government, you'd discuss it at a European level and you'd need to persuade the public, " he added. 

Read more at http://www.europabio.org/agricultural/news/telegraph-speed-roll-out-gm-crops-says-downing-street and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20664016.