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The rapporteur proposes the rigorous separation of traditional and GMO crops. He has a definite vested interest here, since he himself is an ‘organic’ farmer.
Nevertheless, the separation he is proposing at least has the advantage of leaving the decision up to the consumer. There is no need to share his anti-scientific attitude, which consists of putting words into science’s mouth, in order to approve a delimitation that makes it possible to set aside a field for experimentation and verification in research in the GMO sector, while taking the precaution of not mixing production chains.
The precautionary principle is at stake, not so much with regard to researchers as to large capitalist concerns – in this particular case, the seed producers and agri-food industry giants, for whom scientific advances are a means of increasing their profits. In other words, where profit reigns, there is always a risk that irresponsibility will gain the upper hand, with disastrous consequences for human beings and for nature."@en1
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