- Dr. Felix Prinz zu Löwenstein -

Chairman of the Board, Organic Food Industry Federation  (BÖLW) – Berlin

As part of the debate on the application of genetically modified organisms in agriculture, the protagonists of this technology demand from those wanting to continue working without genetic engineering that they should be prepared to live in “coexistence”.

An outcome to this is hardly in sight because the term is used in very different ways: While the non-users of biotechnology expect that it stands for “contamination avoidance strategy”, bioengineers see it as the permission to cause some contamination. At the same time they want us to believe they have everything under control by way of science-based distances and precautionary measures.

Editorial by TraceConsult™

- paquis & co. -

Tomorrow, on 25^th June, in the round of the EU Council of Environmental Ministers, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and Slovenia will table a proposal that is to entitle Member States to ban GMOs on their territory that have already been approved by the EU. For the time being, the Environmental Ministers are debating, i.e. they will not yet vote on the proposal. Originally, the Netherlands were also behind this deal, but as it appears now, this Member State does not support the proposal any further.