Informant38

UK Environment Minister, Michael Meacher, has condemned as 'wicked'
USAID's "GM or Death" food aid ultimatum to African nations. At a House
of Commons briefing this morning, he said "it's wicked when there is
such an excess of non-GM food aid available for GM to be forced on
countries for reasons of GM politics". He continued "if there is an area
where anger needs to be harnessed it is here".

Meacher suggested that European Union governments might step in to
provide an alternative to the GM aid offered by the World Food Programme
and USAID. This is, in fact, already happening - nations disgusted at
USAID's 'tied aid' policy are providing extra cash to ensure that Zambia
can obtain non-GM food. The European Commission has now given Zambia 15
million pounds to purchase non-GM food 'because the EC respected Zambian
government's decision to reject transgenic foods' whilst Japan has
provided 12.4 million dollars to the region and has asked the WFP to
supply Zambia with corn that is not genetically modified. Development
charities in several nations have also provided cash or non-GM food.

{missed that on CNN didn't you?}