Comment on Royal Society Agriculture Report: UK must reinvigorate non-GM research
The Grand Challenge is to Re-invigorate non-GM Research in
the UK
Commenting on
the Royal Society Report Reaping the
Benefits, published today, Pete Riley, Campaign Director of GM Freeze,
said:
�The Royal Society Panel has identified many problems and
challenges that need to be addressed if food is to be produced in a sustainable
way in the future. The big question for the government and scientific community
is how to restore the correct balance in agricultural research funding to give
non-GM solutions a fair crack of the whip and ensure that these are taken up by
farmers around the world.
"If balance is restored we still have time to catch up
on the lost opportunities of the last three decades when GM crops haves been
the main focus but delivered very little, while other approaches have
been starved of cash."