{"id":6717,"date":"2016-07-27T06:10:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T06:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6717"},"modified":"2016-07-27T06:10:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T06:10:43","slug":"6-possible-reasons-to-ban-gm-plant-cultivation-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/07\/27\/6-possible-reasons-to-ban-gm-plant-cultivation-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"6 (possible) reasons to ban GM plant cultivation in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These reasons are those of\u00a0the Green group in the EU Parliament, not mine. \u00a0 You can read them <a href=\"http:\/\/6 reasons to ban GM plant cultivation in the EU\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is their shot across the bows of the EU Commission which recently submitted to the EU standing committee on plants, animals, food and feed (which sounds a bit like <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2010\/08\/02\/the-quality-of-strawberry-jam-if-not-strained\/\">Ofscoff<\/a>), three draft regulations aimed at renewal of the authorisation of cultivation within the EU of three GM maize varieties. \u00a0The Greens don't like the idea.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklynas.org\/2016\/07\/im-sad-see-european-greens-persisting-anti-gmo-myths\/#more-1737\">here<\/a> is Mark Lynas's response to all this. \u00a0Wonderful teaching aids, all. \u00a0As to where I stand on all this \u2013 actually it's right next to Lynas who's not pro- or anti-GM; just pro-science. \u00a0Just so. \u00a0And to think that we'll soon be leaving all this behind \u2013 well, the EU bit of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These reasons are those of\u00a0the Green group in the EU Parliament, not mine. \u00a0 You can read them here. This is their shot across the bows of the EU Commission which recently submitted to the EU standing committee on plants,...<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717","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=6717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}