Nominated for Other (specify below)
Wednesday 23 April 2008
for Worst Use of Public Funds for its 3-year, 5 million euro Transcontainer project that supports new research on suicide seeds – sterile seeds that a farmer could theoretically bring “back to life” by (buying and) applying a chemical. Despite the fact that European consumers have overwhelmingly rejected GM foods, the goal of the EU’s Transcontainer project is to develop GM crops and trees for Europe that could be “biologically contained.”