UK government supports GMOs: millions spent

The British government spends million of pounds to finance GMOs cultivation projects worldwide and it is suspected - according to the Independent on Sunday - to plot with biotech multinational companies to favour tests and introduce in the Country products grown with this method. The weekly also highlights that the government officially declares to be “impartial” as far as GMOs are concerned but some documents obtained by the Sunday paper - with the support of the ecologist group Friends of the Earth - seem to reveal that the Environmental ministry has allowed the company Basf to establish the terms for testing GMO potatoes. The government also appears to spend dozen million pounds to favour research on GMO agricultural products and foods.
These funds are in direct opposition with what the UK government grants to organic agriculture: 1.6 million pounds.