Call for Wales gene-edited crops to fight ‘food crisis’ Tags:United Kingdom 2 comments Nothing more than an effort to create a regulatory wild west, allowing shady American companies to use Britain as a lab in ways rightly banned as unsafe by the EU. And all in order to demonstrate some tenuous “benefit” of Brexit. Good news. The potential benefits of gene-editing are huge, such as in [improving wheat varieties](https://rothamsted.ac.uk/news/global-wheat-production-can-be-doubled-shows-study) for greater yield. England is taking a lead on this but I suspect other European countries won’t be far behind – there are calls to allow GE in EU countries, for example from [Germany](https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/german-green-faction-pushes-for-gene-editing-overhaul-of-regulation/) and [Italy](https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/italian-meps-back-genetically-modified-crops-in-response-to-climate-crisis/). Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
Nothing more than an effort to create a regulatory wild west, allowing shady American companies to use Britain as a lab in ways rightly banned as unsafe by the EU. And all in order to demonstrate some tenuous “benefit” of Brexit.
Good news. The potential benefits of gene-editing are huge, such as in [improving wheat varieties](https://rothamsted.ac.uk/news/global-wheat-production-can-be-doubled-shows-study) for greater yield. England is taking a lead on this but I suspect other European countries won’t be far behind – there are calls to allow GE in EU countries, for example from [Germany](https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/german-green-faction-pushes-for-gene-editing-overhaul-of-regulation/) and [Italy](https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/italian-meps-back-genetically-modified-crops-in-response-to-climate-crisis/).
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Nothing more than an effort to create a regulatory wild west, allowing shady American companies to use Britain as a lab in ways rightly banned as unsafe by the EU.
And all in order to demonstrate some tenuous “benefit” of Brexit.
Good news. The potential benefits of gene-editing are huge, such as in [improving wheat varieties](https://rothamsted.ac.uk/news/global-wheat-production-can-be-doubled-shows-study) for greater yield. England is taking a lead on this but I suspect other European countries won’t be far behind – there are calls to allow GE in EU countries, for example from [Germany](https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/german-green-faction-pushes-for-gene-editing-overhaul-of-regulation/) and [Italy](https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/italian-meps-back-genetically-modified-crops-in-response-to-climate-crisis/).