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Your objections, perhaps, but the EU's trade barriers against them are justified on the grounds of what they call the "precautionary principle" i.e. something m
by sievebrain 10y ago
Your objections, perhaps, but the EU's trade barriers against them are justified on the grounds of what they call the "precautionary principle" i.e. something might be dangerous until proved otherwise and each type of crop must therefore be approved one at a time by the food regulators (which they almost never do)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetically_modified_organisms_in_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetically_modi...
- internaut 10y agoThe precautionary principle is about as scientific as Pascal's Wager and for the same reasons. It is not clear to the public this is a political policy, not an instrument of scientific thinking.