The EU exacerbated hysteria over genetically modified foods has prevented potentially life saving foods from being utilized in the Third World. As we know from recent personal experience, Europeans know far better whats good for barbarians (the US) and darker peoples than the peoples do themselves. Should this "concern" over GM foods turn out to be specious, the witch hunt of our era, are Euros and US enviro activists guilty of crimes against humanity?

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When it comes to the Third World, however, resistance to GM may be malign... there are inventions such as the 'golden rice', created by Dr Ingo Potrykus of Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich, which aim to relieve suffering. Dr Potrykus modified rice to help the 200 million or so children who risk death or blindness from vitamin A deficiency. If it works, and if it is taken up in Asia - two big ifs - children will live who would otherwise die.

Dr Potrykus isn't a pawn of Monsanto, yet he is vilified. He has been told that he has been used by the biotech companies and that people will have to eat impossibly large amounts of his rice to get a minimal benefit. He denies both allegations. When he learned that Greenpeace had reserved the right to take direct action against golden rice tests plots, he said it would be guilty of a 'crime against humanity' if it did.

Historians are likely to write more in anger than amused bewilderment if the GM phobia turns out to have been a European mania which was fatal for non-Europeans.

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