Europe - No mo' GMO

October 26, 2015 7:26 PM

With G.M.O. Policies, Europe Turns Against Science. "Call it the “Coalition of the Ignorant.” By the first week of October, 17 European countries — including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland — had used new European Union rules to announce bans on the cultivation of genetically modified crops.....we are witnessing a historic injustice perpetrated by the well fed on the food insecure. Europe’s stance, if taken up internationally, risks marginalizing a critically important technology that we must surely employ if humanity is to feed itself sustainably in an increasingly difficult and challenging future."

The author of the op-ed, Mark Lynas is the political director for the Cornell Alliance for Science at Cornell University and a co-author. Once an opponent of GMO foods, he explains how and why he changed his mind.

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