{"id":6363,"date":"2015-06-25T07:51:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T07:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6363"},"modified":"2015-06-25T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T07:51:21","slug":"more-on-gm-and-that-panorama-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/06\/25\/more-on-gm-and-that-panorama-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"More on GM and that Panorama programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel, in that sense of balance that seizes me now and again, to refer you to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/journalists\/guy-watson\/\">Guy Watson<\/a>, an organic farmer, who has\u00a0written an article for the Telegraph's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/foodanddrink\/\">Food 'n' Drink<\/a> page. \u00a0Its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/foodanddrink\/11686297\/Guy-Watson-why-did-BBCs-Panorama-fall-for-pro-GM-propaganda.html\">focus<\/a>\u00a0is the BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/06\/10\/how-gm-do-you-feel-today\/\">Panorama<\/a> programme on GM that I wrote about the other week. \u00a0The Soil Association, amongst others, is keen to set the record straight on matters such as aubergines in Bangladesh. \u00a0The headline of the article is clear enough:\u00a0<em>Why did BBC's Panorama fall for pro-GM propaganda?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You should read it \u2013 for balance. \u00a0For me, it tends to follow\u00a0the NGO's self-serving line: 'No GM\u00a0till it's proven to be safe\", but it does end with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"<em>We need ... a cool headed evaluation of the scientific evidence, tempered by transparency around the commercial interests at play.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I agree with that, but would add\u00a0that it's not just \"commercial\" interests that are in play here. \u00a0NGOs have their interests as well, as do farmers of all kinds. \u00a0Not to mention consumers, everywhere, especially the poor and malnourished.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>xx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel, in that sense of balance that seizes me now and again, to refer you to\u00a0Guy Watson, an organic farmer, who has\u00a0written an article for the Telegraph's Food 'n' Drink page. \u00a0Its\u00a0focus\u00a0is the BBC Panorama programme on GM that...<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363","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=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}