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UK ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY BACKS GM FOOD
The UK government's environment secretary Owen Paterson has backed the idea of growing and marketing GM crops in the UK, claiming (unspecified!) "real environmental benefits". He dismissed concerns about impacts on human health as "complete nonsense" and expressed contempt for the public who oppose GM and yet unknowingly eat products from GM-fed livestock. ***Perhaps fatally***, he also attacked Alan Titchmarsh, the much-loved TV gardener, calling him a "complete muppet" after Titchmarsh criticised the Government's policies on the countryside and ash tree dieback disease.

Was haltet ihr von folgender Lösung:

[...] **Jedoch ging er wohl für viele zu weit**, als er den beliebten Fernsehgärtner Alan Titchmarsh attackierte, indem er ihn als „Vollidioten“ bezeichnete. Titchmarsh hatte zuvor die Regierungspolitik [...] kritisiert. (?)