Messing with genetics – what’s it doing to health and who’s actually listening?
Some of the country’s biggest food companies have this week again rejected Genetically engineered farming, including Australia’s biggest frozen lamb exporter and our biggest canola oil producer. State-imposed bans on the relatively new technology, which were implemented in 2003, are up to be reviewed, and quite possibly lifted, early next year. This all comes as author and the executive director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, Jeffrey Smith, is in Australia to campaign against Genetical engineering. He explains what GE is all about, and the health implications and effects on the economy, while Professor Ray Rose, from the University of Newcastle, says it’s time for the bans to be reviewed, because we’re being too over cautious.