Stephen Tindale, former executive director of Greenpeace UK, which opposes the genetic modification of crops in the laboratory, has said that such opposition is now morally unacceptable.
Speaking on an episode of BBC’s Panorama programme, which aired on 8 June, Tindale said he had formerly opposed the use of GM technologies in crops himself, but had changed his mind because the situation had changed.
He said that consideration of the risks of GM now needed to be taken on a case-by-case basis.
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