Field trials for GM mustard have been conducted extensively in India. And an official committee has described the ‘home-grown’ GM mustard seed as safe for consumption and invited public comments till the first week of October. But Vandana Shiva is not apologetic about her beliefs. For example, she is convinced that the so-called Green Revolution in India is a myth and that crop yields were often better in the era before the Green Revolution. “Mustard is central to India’s food culture. The technical expert committee of the Supreme Court has clearly recommended that there should be no introduction of GMOs in some crops because of risks of contamination,” is her refrain. How credible her claims are is something that science and objective research can determine.