THE views of Prince Charles, Duke of Cornwall, on the mass development of genetically modified crops is expected to anger many multi-national companies currently carrying out experiments.
The Prince, who farms organically in Gloucestershire and owns many farms in the region, not least in Devon and Cornwall, has spoken on what he claims could be an environmental disaster.
His comments were first made in an interview to the Daily Telegraph when he claimed food could run out because of the damage being caused on the soil by genetic research.
He accused firms of conducting a "gigantic experiment I think with nature and the whole of humanity which has gone seriously wrong."
He strongly voiced his opinion and said if that was the future "count me out."
He went on to say that small farmers in particular, would be the victims of "gigantic corporations" taking over the mass production of food.
Small farmers all over the world would be driven off their land into "unsustainable, unmanageable, degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness."
The Prince's comments have reopened the whole debate about GM foods.
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