Poll: It is 'wicked' to oppose GM crops?
After Environment Secretary Owen Paterson called opponents of genetically modified crops "wicked", we want to know what Star readers think.
In an interview with The Independent, the North Shropshire MP said members of the anti-GM lobby, which includes campaigners such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, were scuppering crucial nutrition programmes in the developing world.
Highlighting recent work by campaigners to sabotage a crop of "golden rice" - which is fortified to combat blindness and has the potential to save lives - Mr Paterson said opponents to GM were in fact risking lives.
The Tory MP told the newspaper: "It's just disgusting that little children are allowed to go blind and die because of a hang-up by a small number of people about this technology.
"I feel really strongly about it. I think what they do is absolutely wicked."
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