{"title":"Analysing NGOs and their Discourses against GM Crops: Germany and the UK","authors":"Ksenia Gerasimova","doi":"10.5771/9783845296432-259","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The UK and Germany are both currently regulated by the EU directives on GMOs, but this may change as the UK’s exit from the European Union (Brexit) progresses over the next two years. Thus, it is an interesting time to provide a comparative study of these two countries and to examine the difference in national contexts, which leads to a wider debate on the role of science, and public trust in scientific research and its impact on policymaking. Both countries apply the Precautionary Principle. They are both also home to the offices of anti-GMO Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) – Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Danube Soya – which belong to the same European network, GMO-Free Europe, and compare their ideas and campaigns on GM crops. It appears that Britain has adopted a softer version of the Precautionary Principle and is less tolerant of ‘alternative science’ , which may allow more opportunities to introduce new biotechnology, particularly genome editing, in the immediate future.","PeriodicalId":360084,"journal":{"name":"Genome Editing in Agriculture","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Genome Editing in Agriculture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845296432-259","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The UK and Germany are both currently regulated by the EU directives on GMOs, but this may change as the UK’s exit from the European Union (Brexit) progresses over the next two years. Thus, it is an interesting time to provide a comparative study of these two countries and to examine the difference in national contexts, which leads to a wider debate on the role of science, and public trust in scientific research and its impact on policymaking. Both countries apply the Precautionary Principle. They are both also home to the offices of anti-GMO Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) – Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Danube Soya – which belong to the same European network, GMO-Free Europe, and compare their ideas and campaigns on GM crops. It appears that Britain has adopted a softer version of the Precautionary Principle and is less tolerant of ‘alternative science’ , which may allow more opportunities to introduce new biotechnology, particularly genome editing, in the immediate future.