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Independent: US Firms 'Tried To Lie' Over GM Crops, Says EU

"Far from developing GM crops to solve the problem of starvation in the world, as they claimed, the biotech companies did so to 'solve starvation amongst their shareholders'."

American biotech companies tried to lie to Europe in an attempt to force genetically modified crops upon them, Margot Wallstrom, the European environment commissioner, said yesterday.

They tried to lie to people, and they tried to force it upon people. It's the wrong approach. You cannot force it upon Europe. So I hope they have learnt a lesson from this, especially when they now try to argue that this will solve the problems of starvation in the world and so on. But come on ... it was to solve starvation amongst shareholders, not the developing world."