Source: Samuel White, EURACTIV, 10/17/17


The vice-chair of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee has argued that Europe should embrace innovative biotechnologies to boost food production while cutting the environmental impact of farming. “Breeding techniques which do not involve genomic changes from one species to another, and  simply accelerate modifications that could happen in nature, should not be considered as the old-fashioned genetic modifications,” Italian S&D group MEP Paolo De Castro said at a conference on 'Modern Biotechnologies in Agriculture’, on 28 September.

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