It seemed like an ordinary night in Lymm, Cheshire, but by the light of the moon some enthusiastic gardeners were quietly reaping a night-time harvest of genetically modified maize. The mutant vegetables were part of a government sponsored Farm Scale Trial where conventional maize plants are grown alongside GM ones, supposedly to test (among other things) how they affect the biodiversity of the area. However it has been shown that the trials are not a good scientific test and are primarily a political tool to try and persuade people that GM is good. The keen green fingered nocturnal GriM reapers successfully decontaminated the whole field of GM maize plants, leaving only the unmodified border crop still standing, thereby invalidating the trial and sending out a clear message to Biotech corporation Bayer and the government that GM will not be tolerated.
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