Unprecedented Hypocrisy: Gov Bans GM Food From Restaurants But Wants Us to Eat it!

In 1998, the British Government bans GM food from the restaurants in the Houses of Parliament (see below). In 2013, it is still banned (see below).

Yet, even though it is banned from the restaurants in the Houses of Parliament for over 15 years, they tell the public to eat it.


GM crops are safer than conventional crops, says Environment Secretary Owen Paterson

Stepping up his campaign to grow GM crops in the UK, Mr Paterson used a speech in Hertfordshire to promote genetic engineering of plants and called on the government, industry and scientists to join forces to convert the public in the face of widespread fear and scepticism.

Mr Paterson said GM crops were safer than conventional ones because they use "more precise technology and [come under] greater regulatory scrutiny".
Source: [link to www.independent.co.uk]


Unprecedented Hypocrisy

hy·poc·ri·sy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
synonyms: dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity;



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1998: Genetically-modified food has been banned from restaurants and bars in the House of Commons. Full-time catering managers have decided to avoid using genetically-modified (GM) food - developed from crops given genes from other species - until more is known about the long-term effects.

Source: [link to news.bbc.co.uk]


2013: GM foods are banned from restaurants in the Houses of Parliament despite government claims it is ‘probably safer’ than other meals.

Government ministers are demanding that ordinary families should abandon their reluctance to eat genetically modified
food, however they are banned from MPs’ plates.

This week the food and farming secretary, Owen Paterson, launched an extraordinary propaganda campaign to encourage the nation to accept GM crops and farming.

Source: [link to www.dailymail.co.uk]