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Listen to this siteThursday 27 March 2003
Schools debate
A majority of young people at Durham Union Society Schools Debating Competition voted in favour of eating GM food after two hours of heated debate. The annual event was sponsored this year by the Food Standards Agency and you can view it here as video-on-demand.
After an extremely well-informed and passionately argued debate by competition finalists and speakers from the floor, the motion 'This house would eat GM food' was passed by a majority of the students attending the competition on 23 March.
The overall winners of the competition were selected by a panel of independent judges for their skills in debating the issues relating to GM food, were George Molyneaux and Anna Crosby of Robert Gordon's School in Aberdeen, who argued against the motion.
The competition, hosted by Durham University for the past 14 years, is organised by student officers of the Durham Union Society.
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