Europe’s anti-GM attitude weakens

The supermarkets Morrisons and Asda’s have relaxed their GM policy to allow poultry farmers to use GM feed like soya. Some 70% of the world’s soya crop is now thought to be GM and Morrisons said its GM-free policy had become increasingly difficult and costly to maintain. As more of the world embraces GM, the cost of sourcing GM-free ingredients coupled with increasing problems around effective labelling could see the food industry move further away from their anti-GM attitudes.

Read the full story in the September 7 issue of FWSA.