{"id":1214,"date":"2014-11-11T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2014-11-10T21:39:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T02:39:47","slug":"gmos-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/11\/gmos-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Once again, GMOs are safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/11\/10\/gmos-germany\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/38.media.tumblr.com\/3149b64e0cad61736ace054b1ee29b5c\/tumblr_neusksjV7s1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmbf.de\/pub\/BMBF_zur_biologischen_Sicherheitsforschung.pdf\">results of a project<\/a> [PDF] conducted by the German Ministry of Education and Research on the safety of GM crops were published:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--more-->The <strong>results of 25 years of biosafety research show no higher risk to the environment from the cultivation of GM crops than from conventionally bred plants<\/strong>. In view of climate change and population growth and the urgent challenge of providing sufficient food and renewable raw materials for manufacturing and power generation, developing a sustainable, productive agricultural sector is an important government objective. Future BMBF funding programmes will therefore support projects that assess the social, economic and ecological impacts of plant-breeding innovations within specific cultivation systems (e.g. organic or conventional farming), regardless of the breeding method used. This improved knowledge base can be used to develop fact-based decisionmaking aids for farmers \u2013 tools that can help farmers evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of modern plant-breeding methods (including genetic engineering) for the cultivation system in question.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>To date, the BMBF has invested over 100 million euros in more than 300 projects relating to biological safety research. Of these, <strong>more than 140 projects concerned risk assessments of GM plants<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can anyone please let <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/2014\/11\/06\/bill-nye-explains-gmo-skeptic\/\">Bill Nye<\/a><\/strong> know this?<\/p>\n<p>(via: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jmmulet.naukas.com\/2014\/11\/07\/los-transgenicos-son-seguros-hasta-alemania-lo-reconoce\/\">JM Mulet<\/a><\/strong> | Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmbf.de\/\">BMBF<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago the results of a project [PDF] conducted by the German Ministry of Education and Research on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[167,11,122,276],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-germany","tag-gmos","tag-popularizing-science","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}