{"id":3007,"date":"2013-01-09T08:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T08:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T08:31:30","slug":"mark-lynass-gm-mea-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/01\/09\/mark-lynass-gm-mea-culpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Lynas's GM mea culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Lynas's recent lecture to the Oxf<em>ord Farming Conference<\/em> begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I want to start with some apologies. \u00a0For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. \u00a0I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment. \u00a0 As an environmentalist, and someone who believes that everyone in this world has a right to a healthy and nutritious diet of their choosing, I could not have chosen a more counter-productive path. \u00a0I now regret it completely. ...<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklynas.org\/2013\/01\/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conference-3-january-2013\/\">Read on<\/a> ... . \u00a0It's informative, and may be uncomfortable for open-minded passing eco-activists. \u00a0Just goes to show what happens when you think about something for long enough ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Lynas's recent lecture to the Oxford Farming Conference begins: I want to start with some apologies. \u00a0For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. \u00a0I am also sorry that I...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}