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The banana claim was countered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, which issued a statement saying that small-scale farmers around the world grew a wide range of banana species not threatened by the disease that has attacked the Cavendish type sold mostly on the world's supermarket shelves.<ref>Agence France Presse, [http://ngin.tripod.com/310103a.htm UN FOOD AGENCY SAYS BANANAS NOT THREATENED], Jan 30 2003, acc 8 Mar 2011</ref>
 
The banana claim was countered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, which issued a statement saying that small-scale farmers around the world grew a wide range of banana species not threatened by the disease that has attacked the Cavendish type sold mostly on the world's supermarket shelves.<ref>Agence France Presse, [http://ngin.tripod.com/310103a.htm UN FOOD AGENCY SAYS BANANAS NOT THREATENED], Jan 30 2003, acc 8 Mar 2011</ref>
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*GMWatch, [http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-myths/11244-qonly-gm-can-save-the-bananaq "Only GM can save the banana"], 2009</ref>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==

Revision as of 18:44, 8 March 2011

Mark Henderson is science editor of The Times. He is not a scientist.[1]

Activities

Henderson has written many pro-GM articles. For example, he is one of several journalists who have repeated the periodically recurring 'crisis narrative' story to the effect that the banana will become extinct without GM:

The banana claim was countered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, which issued a statement saying that small-scale farmers around the world grew a wide range of banana species not threatened by the disease that has attacked the Cavendish type sold mostly on the world's supermarket shelves.[2]

For more banana-related scaremongering, see:

Affiliations

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  1. Sense About Science, Interview with Mark Henderson, acc 8 Mar 2011,
  2. Agence France Presse, UN FOOD AGENCY SAYS BANANAS NOT THREATENED, Jan 30 2003, acc 8 Mar 2011