Norwich was one of over a hundred cities across the world to participate in the 2017 Pint of Science festival in May, with a variety of events in Norwich pubs that brought cutting-edge scientific research out of the lab and into the city. I visited a session on ‘Food for the Future’ at St Andrew’s…
Science
Time to embrace GM crops?
Last week I came across a documentary on Netflix called GMO OMG; living in a house full of science students it made for an interesting watch. The most infuriating thing about the documentary was that Jeremy Seifert, presenter and film-maker, was so aggressively against genetic modification (GM) that he barely told us any of the…
Global
EU parliament changes rules on GM crops
Last Tuesday the EU parliament voted for a piece of legislation that grants all the states in the EU more freedom over the way they deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Member states will in fact henceforth be allowed to ban or approve the cultivation of GM crops in their territories. GMOs cultivation is perhaps…
Environment, Science
Genetically modified salmon farmed in Panama
Jake Strong Jones on the controversial debate surrounding geneitcally modified food.
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