Owen Paterson, Environment Secretary, says genetically modified food should be grown and sold widely in Britain and opponents of the technology are talking "humbug". Paterson made the remarks amid speculation that ministers are ready to relax controls on the cultivation of GM crops.

What?  Use science to grow food?  Can we get more Brits to re-colonize America, this time in batty anti-science states like California?  Or maybe put a few in the federal government?

"Emphatically we should be looking at GM... I'm very clear it would be a good thing," Paterson told the Daily Telegraph. "The trouble is all this stuff about Frankenstein foods and putting poisons in foods. There are real benefits, and what you've got to do is sell the real environmental benefits."

It's easier to sell fear and doubt, of course.

Environment Secretary backs GM food - Birmingham Mail