Nestle stands by GM crops

Nestle chairman Peter Brabeck has called on European policymakers to reconsider their opposition to genetically modified crops.

'You cannot today feed the world
without genetically modified organisms,' the Financial Times quoted
Brabeck as saying. 'We have the means to make agriculture sustainable
in the long term.' In response to price hikes that are putting basic
foodstuffs as rice and wheat out of reach of the world's poorest.