ANYONE lucky enough to attend a function at the Royal Society in London will
notice that lunch is served in a room with a prominent notice proclaiming: “We
do not serve any food derived from genetically modified materials.”
Does this represent an important shift in Royal Society policy? Readers will
remember that not so long ago the society was involved in a high-profile
exercise rejecting claims by Arpad Pusztai that genetically modified potatoes
are harmful to rats.
Do the learned fellows now know something the rest of us don’t?
READER John Buckman tells us of the e-mail message he…
