BASF - planting GM spuds in Britain thanks to the EU

The company that has been authorised to plant GM spuds in the UK by the EU, read here, is none other than BASF. For their history read this link from Wikipedia from which this is an excerpt: "As a result of this monopoly, BASF was able to start operations at a new site in Leuna in 1916, where explosives were produced during the First World War. On September 21, 1921, an explosion occurred in Oppau, killing 565 people. This was the biggest catastrophe in German industry (see Oppau explosion). Under the leadership of Carl Bosch, BASF founded IG Farben together with Hoechst, Bayer and three other companies, thus losing its independence. BASF was the nominal survivor, as all shares were exchanged for BASF shares prior to the merger. Rubber, fuels and coatings were added to the product range. In 1935, IG Farben and AEG presented the magnetophone – the first tape recorder – at the Radio Exhibition in Berlin. Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, IG Farben cooperated with the Nazi regime, profiting from guaranteed volumes and prices and from the slave labour provided by the government's concentration camps." No surprise that this latest experiment is to be carried out well away from Germany then! As part of Blair's new expensive campaign to conceal who really runs Britain, the decision by the EU was misreported in the UK media. Read the EU referendum blog for details.