Reader's Blog: Promoting the facts about good uses of GMOs

The ruling on July 26 by the Court of Justice of the European Union is frankly absurd. The case was brought by the Confederation paysanne (a French agricultural union which defends the interests of small scale farming). The court ruled that ‘organisms obtained by mutagenesis are Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and are, in principle, subject to the obligations laid down by the GMO directive’.

However, the court also ruled that only ‘certain mutagenesis techniques’ will fall into this category. What kind of anti-science nonsense is this?