Doctors call for moratorium on GM foods

THE IRISH Doctors’ Environmental Association (IDEA) has backed calls for an immediate moratorium on genetically modified (GM) foods.
A new position paper from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) had said that GM foods ‘pose a serious health risk’ and called for a moratorium on them.

The paper also said doctors must educate their patients and the public to avoid GM foods and that doctors should consider the role of GM foods in their “patients’ disease processes”.
“Doctors have an ethical and moral duty to highlight concerns in relation to these issues and in the interest of the health of present and future generations. Permission to grow or consume genetically engineered foods in Ireland should be denied,” it stated.