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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

This is turn can invoke the idea that scientific progress interferes with nature, producing results which are unpredictable and ethically wrong. So of course they protect these innovations through patents and intellectual property rights. There's also the question of whether it is ethically correct for companies to own life.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

In order to reach EU Farm to Fork objectives, we believe it is essential that EU Regulations foster further all innovative solutions, be it biopesticides or pesticides, plant biotech including NGTs or digital and precision agriculture tools so that farmers have access to a full toolbox of effective solutions towards more sustainable farming.”.