2021-11-12
England fast-tracking GMO food?
"Ministers say that the next step is introducing legislation that would allow gene-edited food from crops and livestock that could have been created naturally, or through traditional breeding, to be sold without having to go through GM regulations and safety tests"
GMWatch has some comments:
"we do not agree with ... [the] definition of gene editing as 'speeding up a process that might happen naturally'. This is GMO industry framing that is based on zero evidence; on the contrary, there is plenty of evidence that gene editing causes intended and unintended changes that could not happen naturally or are extremely unlikely to happen naturally"
Apparently our ministers believe that there is no need to label such foodstuffs either! Do they work for us or do they work for the GM food industry?
So much for transparency.
I wonder how many of those who voted in the Brexit referendum (on either side) voted for this?
To be fair to the BBC, they reported this at the end of September (under "science and environment").
Probably not an eye-catcher, but worth reading.
As the writers in the Comments section note - will our farmers be too pleased when the EU slaps additional controls on our exports to keep this stuff out?
