Written by Tom Allen-Stevens
What sort of regulatory environment for new breeding technologies is required and what will be the implication for farmers, and ultimately consumers, who lie at the heart of this debate? CPM reports exclusively on a survey of farmers. By Tom Allen-Stevens GM can be a divisive topic, and the farming community is no less split on how and whether it should be introduced as the public in general. Views on gene-editing, however are harder a gauge. A survey was undertaken in March 2019 by the Gene-Editing for Environment and Crop Improvement Initiative, that represents scientists, breeders and others in the UK agricultural industry with an interest in new breeding technologies (NBTs). The views expressed aren’t representative of farming opinion as the respondents have been selected as those who are relatively well informed on a technology that is, as yet, largely unknown and not commercially available. Nonetheless, they are the farmers who, should gene-edited (GE) crops be grown commercially in the UK, are likely to be the first to have the opportunity, and the survey reveals it’s one they’d be very keen to explore. Almost three-quarters disagree with the Court of Justice for the EU ruling classing GE crops as GMOs,…
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