Staunch opponents of the agricultural biotechnology revolution spin a narrative that large agribusiness have strong-armed governments to approve genetically modified crops and brainwashed farmers to grow them.
Staunch opponents of the agricultural biotechnology revolution spin a narrative that large agribusiness have strong-armed governments to approve genetically modified crops and brainwashed farmers to grow them.
Since 2000, the EU has adopted a very hostile stance towards GMO crops, and it’s carried over into its opposition to new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs), such as CRISPR gene editing. Unlike in many other countries, including the US, Brazil, Japan, England, Canada and Argentina, the next generation of European crops will not be pesticide resistant and more nutritious, or tweaked to resist disease, drought, flooding and browning.
Cooperation between the Visegrad countries is not a function of political winds, but of economic rationality, it can have a future based on economic issues.