LOCAL doctors have waded into the GM debate, presenting their own petition against the introduction of genetically modified crops to the Augusta-Margaret River Shire. At last week’s shire meeting councillors were expecting a public petition, containing almost 1500 individual signatures and those of 134 business people in the shire, but the doctors petition, handed over by Eddie Donato, came as a suprise to some. [...] All are concerned about the as yet unidentified risks GM food may have on human and animal health, and the contamination of locally produced food.