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Activists threaten to uproot engineered UK crops

9 May 2012

GENETICALLY modified crops cover 70 million hectares in the US, according to industry groups. Across the pond, UK scientists wishing to plant one test field must beg protesters not to uproot it. Such is the contrast between approaches to modified crops on either side of the Atlantic.

“UK scientists wishing to plant one test field must beg protesters not to uproot it”

In the latest UK row, staff at in Harpenden are pitted against protest group . The biologists are testing . The protest group says it…

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