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FORMER ANTI-GM activist Mark Lynas certainly stirred up the tree-hugging set with his now famous (or is that infamous) ‘change of heart’ speech given at the recent Oxford Farming Conference.
Lynas – who spent “several years ripping up GM crops” and helped start the anti-GM movement in the 1990s – told the conference he had a change of heart on genetic modification after he “discovered science”. Of course Lynas’ change of heart has gone down like a cup of cold Round-up with the anti-GM lobby who – predictably – have gone on to attack their former hero as a traitor.
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