Opinion: The rewrite of our gene technology law takes on a whole new meaning when looking at what else is planned alongside this.

The level of risk implied is staggering, and for gains that are no more than speculative.
Forget mere trade losses – millions of dollars lost from exports being accidentally contaminated with genetically modified organisms. We are talking about risks from genetech at a level that threaten the entire agricultural economy. For example, inadvertent changes that undermine an aspect of the basic biology that sustains farming.

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