Searing temperatures and historic droughts are expected again in Europe this summer. Some experts are pushing the use of GMO crops that are capable of withstanding heat waves. But not everyone is on board. Here's what you need to know.
“We’re going to fight this to the end,” Nina Holland, a researcher at consumer group Corporate Europe Observatory, said of upcoming EU regulation changes that she said were too heavily influenced by biotech lobby groups.“The biotech seed industry pretends that the GMOs resulting from ‘new techniques’ are not GMOs,” Italian farmer Antonio Onorati, a member of the seeds working group attold Yahoo News.
Onorati’s group is part of a coalition of 50 nongovernmental organizations that met with EU officials earlier this month to present a petition signed by 420,000 Europeans demanding that the EU refrain from reclassifying gene-edited plants as different from previous genetically modified plants.
“Gene-editing technology,” added Corteva’s Cnudde, “allows us in a very precise way to make a targeted change. It brings a unique level of control” — that is even more exact, he said, “than some traditional plant breeding techniques,” which are not regulated. “So what would be the scientific rationale, [for keeping more stringent regulations on gene editing] when we know exactly what we’re doing?”
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