Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

'Fluent, persuasive and surely right.' Evening Standard

The inside story of the fight for and against genetic modification in food.

Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990s – working undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movement – he would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the world – from New York to China – still think that 'GMO' foods are bad for their he...