25 Mar 2011A founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says the global food crisis could be more readily averted - if only bureaucrats in the United Nations (UN) stopped tying farmers’ hands with red tape. Farmers, biotechnology expert Henry Miller says, need access to a tool that’s proven itself safe and effective time and again. He’s talking about genetically modified food crops.
Miller wrote in London’s Sunday Guardian that overregulation and painfully long approval periods are unnecessarily preventing the world’s poorest from being readily nourished by high-yielding biotech crops:
Genetic engineering offers plant breeders the tools to make crops do spectacular new things. In more than two dozen countries, farmers are using genetically engineered crop varieties to produce higher yields, with lower inputs and reduced impact on the environment.
http://greenbio.checkbiotech.org/news/biotech_crops_could_crush_global_hunger
