The European Union Is Finally Coming Around to Gene-Edited Seeds after 25 years of Luddite resistance

Good news! The EU has taken the so called precautionary principle to absurd levels! It has exploited the primitive fears of people!

There are still about a 1 billion people living on earth without sufficient food!

"In 2021, the European Union announced that it would be reviewing its 2001-era legislation governing genetically modified (GM) organisms ...

Two years following the EU’s 2021 announcement, the European Commission (the EU’s executive branch) is now proposing to loosen its restrictive GM rules in cases where gene-edited crops have been subject to no more than 20 specific gene modifications. A leaked draft of the proposed legislation suggests that under the new rules, EU countries would no longer be able to ban the cultivation of NGT crops. The decision is based on an extensive study that found, as an EU Vice-President put it, “there is sufficient evidence and scientific basis to initiate a targeted policy action on plants derived from certain new genomic techniques”—i.e., NGTs. ..."

The European Union Is Finally Coming Around to Gene-Edited Seeds For a quarter century, activists such as Vandana Shiva have opposed GM crops that can help feed the world. Now, more than ever, it’s time to reject their Luddite demands