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GM
or not GM... 91热爆 ONE and Radio 4 investigate
In
June, the Government is launching a public debate about whether
genetically modified (GM) crops should be grown in the UK on a commercial
scale.
In
a week of special programmes ahead of the debate, 91热爆 ONE and 91热爆
Radio 4 look at how genetic modification is already having a huge
influence on the way food is produced across the world.
Countryfile,
Farming Today and On Your Farm will highlight amazing
developments in the food and drug industries, and look at the way
the battle for public opinion is being waged by governments, international
corporations and powerful pressure groups.
Included
in the programmes will be:
* A
special report from Argentina asking whether it ended up destroying
rural communities when a shattered economy turned to GM soya to
feed its people (Farming Today This Week, 6.35am, Saturday 17 May,
Radio 4)
* Why
scientists want to boost milk production by transplanting genes
from wallabies into dairy cows (Countryfile, 11.00am, Sunday 18
May, 91热爆 ONE)
* An
investigation into claims behind the scenes at a British farm where
GM crops are already being grown that wildlife is actually thriving
(Farming Today, 5.45am, Tuesday 20 May, Radio 4)
* A
look into the Government's claims that Britain will miss out on
the science boom of the 21st century if it rejects GM technology
(Farming Today, 5.45am, Friday 23 May, Radio 4)
* An
investigation into why it is the pharmaceutical industry that is
the real driver of genetic modification of animals, to produce -
amongst other things - human transplant organs and proteins to fight
cancer (Countryfile, 11.00am, Sunday 25 May, 91热爆 ONE).
Sarah
Eglin, Series Producer of Countryfile, says: "The information
Countryfile has uncovered about scientific advances in GM which
is going on in other countries is either exciting or frightening,
depending upon your perspective.
"I
look forward to hearing the views of our audience who can write
to us with their opinions for our special programme from a GM crop
trials farm on 25 May."
Steve
Peacock, Executive Producer of Farming Today, says: "The stories
we've uncovered in Argentina will make many people think hard about
the claims that are being made both for and against the use of GM
technology in the food chain.
"Farming
Today's journalists have been covering these issues - and often
leading the debate - for more than a decade so we are in a unique
position to steer listeners through the inevitable torrent of propaganda."
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