Your Honour:

As someone having deep misgivings on genetically modified crops entering our

food chain, I strongly commend your decision of February 9th wherein you have

introduced a moratorium on the release of Bt brinjal in India.

This letter however is not about your decision but what you have written therein

about China. 

You have stated that you have discussed the genetic crop issue with your

Chinese counterpart (Hon. Zhou Shengxian I would presume).  I was amused

to learn that he informed you “to be extremely cautious when it comes to

introduction [of GM technology] in food crops”, since occurrences from the

middle of last year have revealed that nothing is further from the truth than his