{"title":"Analysing NGOs and their Discourses against GM Crops: Germany and the UK","authors":"Ksenia Gerasimova","doi":"10.5771/9783845296432-259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845296432-259","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":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131386170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CRISPR/Cas, Precaution and Democracy: The Challenging Governance of a Rapidly Changing Technology","authors":"B. Bartkowski","doi":"10.5771/9783845296432-179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845296432-179","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360084,"journal":{"name":"Genome Editing in Agriculture","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116013957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Logic of Exempting CRISPR/Cas9-Plants from Strict GM Approval under European Union GM Regulation: A Case Study of Genome Editing in Camelina","authors":"J. V. Belle, J. Schaart, R. Loo","doi":"10.5771/9783845296432-23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845296432-23","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360084,"journal":{"name":"Genome Editing in Agriculture","volume":"21 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113953123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gene-Edited ‘Gluten-Safe’ Wheat, and Policy Issues Regarding New Plant Breeding Techniques","authors":"Aurélie Jouanin, M. Smulders","doi":"10.5771/9783845296432-61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845296432-61","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360084,"journal":{"name":"Genome Editing in Agriculture","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130412556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accelerated Breeding of Carrots (Daucus carota) through the New Plant Breeding Method of Uniparental Genome Elimination by Haploid Technology: A Blur between Breeding and Regulation","authors":"Katharina Unkel, T. Sprink","doi":"10.5771/9783845296432-47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845296432-47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360084,"journal":{"name":"Genome Editing in Agriculture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130764147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Technology and Reality Meet: Exploring the Potential of a Constructive Precautionary Principle for Genome-Editing Technologies","authors":"Chad M. Baum","doi":"10.5771/9783845296432-197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845296432-197","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360084,"journal":{"name":"Genome Editing in Agriculture","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125886884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}