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HARDtalk
with Michael Meacher
Michael
Meacher, former Environment Minister, is interviewed by Tim Sebastian
on BBC News 24's HARDtalk tonight.
Anti-globalisation
protesters are expected to turn up in large numbers at the World
Trade Organisation's meeting in Cancun in September and genetically
modified crops will be one of the issues they want answers on.
Is
the truth about the crops and their impact being buried in slick
multi-million public relations campaigns?
In
June Michael Meacher claimed studies on the effects of GM foods
on human health had been "scientifically vacuous", and warned the
Government against rushing the debate.
He
has just come back from Canada where GM crops have been grown commercially
for the last seven years.
Tim
Sebastian asks him what lessons can be learned from the Canadian
experience and what he hopes to achieve in Cancun.
HARDtalk
is
on BBC News 24 at 11.30pm today (Wednesday 27 August 2003).
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