As part of an agricultural charm offensive by the US government, a group of British journalists was invited into the Wisconsin laboratory where in 1998 Monsanto developed …. Roundup Ready soybean. The development has allowed the spread of “no-till” farming, which is thought …. to reduce run-off of fertilizers and pesticides.
Monsanto no longer owns the lab. Two years ago it handed the lot over to the University of Wisconsin-Madison …. The university used the resource to set up its Crop Innovation Center, whose charming and affable associate director, Michael Petersen, showed us around.
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“The UK has always been a challenge, since the early days,” he says. “They have always taken a conservative route. Most other countries are going the way of the United States.”
People say “it’s a GMO, so it’s bad. But stereotyping anything as bad is wrong,” he says.
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Mr Petersen predicts that necessity will be the mother of adoption, when it comes to GM foods. “Climate change and population pressure will reach a point where we have to put our sensitivities aside,” he says.
Already some modifications introduced …. such as producing drought-resistant corn – are a response to climate change.
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