Author: scienceplease 2
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2014 9:14 am (GMT 0)
outsider wrote:
The Chinese aren't daft!!! 
No, but apparently we are!
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/14/scrap-dysfunctional-gm-regulations-uk-government-science-advisers-food
Quote:
David Cameron's science advisers call for expansion of GM crops
Report urges scrapping of 'dysfunctional' regulations on crops that risk curtailing the UK's food supply
The Guardian, Friday 14 March 2014
David Cameron's official science advisers have called for GM crops to be rolled out across the UK by scrapping "dysfunctional" EU regulations that risk curtailing future food supplies.
"We take it for granted that because our supermarket shelves are groaning with food, there are no problems with the food supply, but there are," said government's chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir Mark Walport, citing rising global population, limited farmland and climate change. "If we don't use GM the risk is people going unfed."
Risk of people going unfed!? So no fear-mongering here then! 