Environment Secretary Owen Paterson favors GM crops to be safer than conventional plants

U.K. Environment secretary, Owen Paterson while inspecting a genetically modified crop trial in Harpenden Hertfordshire.

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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U.K. Environment secretary, Owen Paterson while inspecting a genetically modified crop trial in Harpenden Hertfordshire.British Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has said genetically modified crops are likely to be safer than conventional plants.

Mr. Paterson has made the Making the strongest call favoring the adaptation of technology and highlighted the significant benefits of GM for farmers, consumers and the environment.

He has also said that Britain should embrace the benefits of genetically modified crops and push other EU countries to drop their opposition to GM food.

Mr. Paterson has said: “The next generation of GM offers the most wonderful opportunities to improve human health.”

But green groups consider this fresh declaration regarding the GM food is dangerous and misguided.

However, the environment secretary has never kept his support for GM technology as secret. Mr. Paterson has also shown his concern for the risk of U.K. to be left behind as it was being adopted by the rest of the world.

He has also dismissed criticisms that GM could pose problems to human health.

He has said: “The use of more precise technology and the greater regulatory scrutiny probably make GMOs even safer than than conventional plants and food.

“The EU chief scientist Anne Glover has said it pretty bluntly – there is no substantiated case of any adverse impact on human health on animal health or on environmental health.”

Genetic modification is regarded to be crucial for dealing with steep world population growth, predicted to be 9bn by 2050. But still some of the environmentalists are showing widespread opposition towards the “Frankenstein foods”.

Mr. Paterson has acknowledged public and environmental concerns but insisted that “extensive testing” has been done to remove the existing fears: “As with all technologies, public and environmental safety is paramount.

“The truth is that products are subject to extensive testing and development in tightly controlled conditions – progressing from laboratory, to glasshouse, to field trials only when it’s safe to do so.”

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