Great article Scottie and it's very good to open an incredibly and increasingly important debate.
My own take is that with a still growing population ( globally) we need to think extremely carefully about ' what next and ' how ' in agro farming ' .
I was, and still am impressed with vertical farming and the circularity it provides. The EUs backwards looking ideas on gene editing/splicing and disease resistance needs revisiting as does the UKs reset and alignment with EU SPS measures with little economic value to us.
Science/agro science really ought to be forwards looking and not be beholden to large European cartels/technocrats - we can do better than that as your article demonstrates.
Absolutely JJ. Listening to Alex at Generation Soil last week and then reading this, we really need to raise awareness and, indeed, debate! Methinks we are meandering with partial sight atm….
Great article Scottie and it's very good to open an incredibly and increasingly important debate.
My own take is that with a still growing population ( globally) we need to think extremely carefully about ' what next and ' how ' in agro farming ' .
I was, and still am impressed with vertical farming and the circularity it provides. The EUs backwards looking ideas on gene editing/splicing and disease resistance needs revisiting as does the UKs reset and alignment with EU SPS measures with little economic value to us.
Science/agro science really ought to be forwards looking and not be beholden to large European cartels/technocrats - we can do better than that as your article demonstrates.
Absolutely JJ. Listening to Alex at Generation Soil last week and then reading this, we really need to raise awareness and, indeed, debate! Methinks we are meandering with partial sight atm….