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04/21/2008: "Modified soya produces 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent"

Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.

The study â€" carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt â€" has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.

[ Added to this we don't know what serious health problems will later come to light as a result of GM crop consumption. ]

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/exposed-the-great-gm-crops-myth-812179.html