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Reactions on the UK Royal Society report
For now, at least, the hype is muted. Yesterday’s Royal Society report takes care not to repeat the claims, put forward by some proponents of the technology that genetic modification can itself end world hunger. Indeed it condemns such simplistic stances, noting that past debates ”have failed to acknowledge that there is no technological panacea”. That is welcome for, as Prof James Specht of the University of Nebraska has pointed out, the ”hype-to-reality ratio” has at times reached ”infinity”.
- The Daily Telegraph, UK: Royal Society accepts GM is not the only answer
- GeneWatch UK, UK: Response to Royal Society agriculture report
- Fresh Produce Consortium, UK: FPC welcomes public debate on GM as potential tool for horticulture
- Friends of the Earth, UK: Royal Society food report - Friends of the Earth reaction
- SpinWatch, UK: David Baulcombe - SpinProfiles
- Agricultural Biotechnology Council, UK: abc welcomes Royal Society report on science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture
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2009-10-21 | permalink
Reactions on the UK Royal Society report
For now, at least, the hype is muted. Yesterday’s Royal Society report takes care not to repeat the claims, put forward by some proponents of the technology that genetic modification can itself end world hunger. Indeed it condemns such simplistic stances, noting that past debates ”have failed to acknowledge that there is no technological panacea”. That is welcome for, as Prof James Specht of the University of Nebraska has pointed out, the ”hype-to-reality ratio” has at times reached ”infinity”.
- The Daily Telegraph, UK: Royal Society accepts GM is not the only answer
- GeneWatch UK, UK: Response to Royal Society agriculture report
- Fresh Produce Consortium, UK: FPC welcomes public debate on GM as potential tool for horticulture
- Friends of the Earth, UK: Royal Society food report - Friends of the Earth reaction
- SpinWatch, UK: David Baulcombe - SpinProfiles
- Agricultural Biotechnology Council, UK: abc welcomes Royal Society report on science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture
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