04.04.2008 | permalink
TWO members of the expert committee that advises the State Government on genetically modified crops claim they are gagged from speaking about the committee’s work, and the committee’s make-up is kept from the public to hide the fact it is stacked with pro-GM appointees. [...] Not even the names of the committee’s members appear on the Department of Primary Industries website, but it includes people from the CSIRO, the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), the NSW Farmers’ Association, GrainCorp and the plant-breeding organisation CropLife - all organisations that have supported GM crops.