Nobel Prize winner calls anti-GMO opinion ‘crime against humanity’

This is how you kick off a biotech convention:

On Monday, the Nobel Prize in Medicine Richard J. Roberts accused the political interests of some parties, especially environmentalists, of “demonizing” GM foods when there is no scientific evidence of their health prejudices and they “are a solution to combat hunger in the world”.

Roberts, who inaugurated on Monday a Biotechnology convention in Havana, said “there is not a single scientific school in the world that finds genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be dangerous“.

Roberts recalled that the lack of food is one of the greatest challenges humanity will be facing in the coming years, “greater than wars or diseases”, with the expected increase in population, which only affect the countries developing, not the developed ones.

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