Protesters urge GM trials delay

PROTESTERS against genetically modified potatoes held a public meeting last night to highlight what they see as the dangers of meddling with nature.

German company BASF plans to plant blight resistant potatoes on land owned by the Cambridgebased National Institute of Agricultural Botany later in the spring.

But Friends of the Earth wants the Government to reconsider after a Dutch court ruled earlier this month that BASF's permit for trials in Holland breached European law.

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