Yellow-Bellied GM Lobby

On September the 7th a Nottinghamshire farmer, Home Farm in Screveton, announced that he had decided to back out of plans to grow a farm-scale experiment of oil seed rape, on behalf of agrochemical company AgrEvo after local people expressed environmental concerns.

The GM oil seed rape crop was one of four farm-scale GM experiments planned for the winter. It is also the fourth farm-scale GM trial to have been halted this year. Fifty smaller GM sites have also been stopped.

The month before Deutsche Bank,Europe's biggest bank advised the world's largest investors to sell their shares in leading companies involved in the development of GMO's. Since then, shares in companies named have fallen, by up to 18%.