The path to sustainability is being laid by patient, detail-focused engineers, scientists, and statisticians with little interest in marketing and politics.
There is a lack of clarity around how organic crops can now prove they are not grown near gene edited fields as locations and labels not required under new law.
From anti GM stunts in the noughties to XR’s recent decision to move away from direct action: could a lighter approach to activism be more inclusive and ultimately more impactful?
The problem is not the technology itself, rather, the uniformity and rigid control that its commercial application requires.
Critics say legislation is being fuelled by a false narrative that gene editing is different to GM while others warn neither solve the real problems in broken food system.
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