‘I was wrong to trash GM’: author Mark Lynas
Environmental campaigner and author Mark Lynas said: “I regret completely the part I played in helping to campaign against GM food starting in 1995.”
Lynas said the campaign – which featured “an anti-science message” − had demonised GM techniques. In doing so, it had held back the development of important GM technologies, which could make a powerful contribution to improving the availability of safe food while cutting pesticide, fertiliser and other imputs such as diesel.
‘The real Frankenstein’s monster’
“The real Frankenstein’s monster was not GM science but our reaction to it,” he said.
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