Green party leader Natalie Bennett and Johnjoe McFadden, a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Surrey, debate the future of food production. Has enough evidence been gathered on the safety of GM? Has the economic case been made? And is opposition to GM merely superstition, as some scientists claim?
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