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Letter: Modified thinking

Published 25 July 2012

From James Budd

The letter from Pete Riley of campaign group GM Freeze questioning a field trial of genetically modified wheat illustrates one of the defects of the environmentalist philosophy (16 June, p 32). He equates practical with moral objections. The fact that a modification might not “work” is taken as a moral argument that it should not be tested in the first place.

Bramhall, Stockport, UK

Issue no. 2875 published 28 July 2012

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