Moving beyond the GM Debate

Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and unnecessarily decisive. In my opinion the GM debate, on both sides, continues to hamper the urgent need to address the diverse and pressing challenges of global food security and e...

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Autor principal: Leyser, Ottoline
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Perspective
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4051613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24914954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001887
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description Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and unnecessarily decisive. In my opinion the GM debate, on both sides, continues to hamper the urgent need to address the diverse and pressing challenges of global food security and environmental sustainability. The destructive power of the debate comes from its conflation of unrelated issues, coupled with deeply rooted misconceptions of the nature of agriculture.
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spelling pubmed-40516132014-06-18 Moving beyond the GM Debate Leyser, Ottoline PLoS Biol Perspective Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and unnecessarily decisive. In my opinion the GM debate, on both sides, continues to hamper the urgent need to address the diverse and pressing challenges of global food security and environmental sustainability. The destructive power of the debate comes from its conflation of unrelated issues, coupled with deeply rooted misconceptions of the nature of agriculture. Public Library of Science 2014-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4051613/ /pubmed/24914954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001887 Text en © 2014 Ottoline Leyser http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4051613/
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