ABSTRACT
In 2005 there were no Genetically Modified (GM) crops grown in the UK; foodstuffs have to be labelled when the level of GM is greater than 0.9 per cent; supermarkets require their own label products to be GM-free and the public is generally against eating GM food. The claims that were initially made from the pro-GM side of the debate were impressive. They were such claims as the greening of the desert, cereals that would fix their own nitrogen, salt-tolerant crops through to crops with increased yields and nutritional content, pest and disease resistance and tolerance to herbicides. Few of these claims have been brought to market and a decade later they have been toned down. When seed of a Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerant (GMHT) variety is bought an agreement is joined into that the purchaser will only use the herbicide sold to them by the company producing the seed.
