In his
annual address to the
Royal Society Lord (Robert) May said that
invasive "Garden centre plants are a bigger threat (to the British countryside) than
Genetically Modified (GM) superweeds"
Lord May also pointed out that
GM technology could be used for further intensification of modern agriculture, leading to “fewer wild plants, fewer insects, fewer birds and an
ever more silent spring” but that it could also be employed to help us “grow food more efficiently but in ways which
work with the grain of nature rather than wrenching the environment to (produce) our crops with fossil-fuel subsidised fertilisers, herbicides and pesticides”.