Also Camilla Loretti on #NGT plenary vote next Wednesday:

"We, the social democrats, will bring in two amendments: one against patenting of plants, another for transparency - consumers MUST know what they eat."

@emmecola Sure! https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.adk6662

Of course this isn’t the only unintended damage caused to the #DNA by #NGT. Caution and careful examination of GMOs with proper techniques is absolutely appropriate.

It also shows that this research area is still very young, there is a lot we don’t know yet. It’s too early to deregulate it.

> Potential adverse effects shall not be discounted on the basis that they are unlikely to occur.

(A quote from the current #GMO directive: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02001L0018-20210327)