Prince Charles' remarks spur biotech debate in Britain

摘要

Prince Charles' remarks about biotech crops to a Daily Mail interviewer earlier this month have sparked a fierce debate in Britain. The prince said that increased use oftransgenic crops to help solve world food shortages risks causing the world's worst environmental catastrophe. He warned that small-scale farmers around the globe could be "driven off their land into unsustainable, unmanageable, degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness" (see FCN Aug. 18, Page 19).