"Anyone who cares about the British countryside will be delighted by this announcement. The only GM crop with a government green light now doesnt even have the support of its own manufacturer. Tony Blair bent over backwards to get this crop grown, but Bayer knew its Maize would fail in the field. Without the help of a powerful chemical herbicide recently banned throughout Europe, Britain's first GM crop would have been a flop. That's why it has been abandoned."

She continued, "This doesnt mean that Britain will be free of GM. Supermarkets like Sainsburys continue to support the import of millions of tonnes of American GM Maize to feed the cows that produce our milk. But Greenpeace will continue to fight this dangerous technology wherever it is grown."