Genetically modified maize
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I’ve by no means been a supporter of Brexit, apart from one factor: it has allowed the UK to interrupt free from the damaging straitjacket of European Union agricultural coverage, together with its prohibition on genetically modified crops. I’ve all the time believed this was based mostly extra on sentiment than science. In post-Brexit Britain, science has gained.
Final yr, the Genetic Expertise (Precision Breeding) Act got here into pressure, permitting the event of gene-edited crops and animals in England. This isn’t fairly GM, which permits for the insertion of genes from different species, quite than gene modifying’s method…
