GMO Battle Ahead The future of farming, which is to say producing enough food under the duress of climate change and with less burden on the environment will require more rapid genetic changes to plants. This requires embracing new breeding techniques and that is well understood by some EU policymakers. Thus, it was no surprise today when the EU Commission released its year-long study of novel genomic techniques (NGT’s) and concluded some are safe and should not be burdened by the existing novel foods directive. Since the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled almost two years ago that NGT’s fall under the novel foods directive, this means the law has to be changed, and that will not be easy.  The problem is that the study...

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