Organic Farmers Must Embrace GM Crops Says Scientist

The organic movement should overcome its hostility to genetically modified crops and embrace the contribution that they can make to sustainable farming, one of the world’s leading agricultural scientists has told The Times.

Although organic farmers are among the most implacable opponents of genetic engineering, it should be accepted as legitimate, according to Gordon Conway, Professor of International Development at Imperial College London and a former government adviser.

In an interview with The Times, he said that the ban on organic farmers using GM crops was based on an excessively rigid rejection of synthetic approaches to farming and a misconception that natural ways were safer and more environment- friendly than man-made ones.'

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See more about the ' Scentist' Sir Gordon Conway KCMG FRS FRGS and ex president of the Rockefeller Foundation,ex Ford Foundation and World bank and current presisdent of the Royal Society here and here...