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“I see something extremely disturbing: the European anti-scientific view spreading to other parts of the world.”

US trade representative Robert Zoellick declares he supports filing a case against the European Union for its refusal to accept genetically modified foods (The Washington Post, 10 January)

“Sizewell is easier to get into than a Norwich nightclub. If we can do this, then anyone can.”

Greenpeace activist Rob Gueterbock, part of a group that got into one of Britain’s biggest nuclear plants (Metro, London, 14 January)

“We are on a slippery slope… If the US resumed testing, this would be a signal to other nuclear weapon states to do…

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