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Conservatives support the right to choose

Jim Place, the Conservative Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Rural Affairs, has tabled a new Early Day Motion (EDM) on GM crops asserting the right to choose non-GM foods.

The EDM states support for consumers’ right to choose non-GM foods, including from GM-fed livestock. The MPs, including Peter Ainsworth, Conservative Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, are calling for “the Government to ban any commercial planting of GM crops until or unless the science shows that this would be safe for people and the environment, and until or unless issues of liability and crop s