{"id":16987,"date":"2013-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130927-01n"},"modified":"2013-09-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T22:00:00","slug":"chief-eu-scientist-backs-damning-report-urging-gmo-rethink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/chief-eu-scientist-backs-damning-report-urging-gmo-rethink\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief EU scientist backs damning report urging GMO \u2018rethink\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Studies linking genetically modified crops with adverse effects on the environment or animal health are based on &#8220;contested science\u201d, according to a recent report by the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), which received backing from Anne Glover, the EU\u2019s chief scientific advisor.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The report from EASAC, published in June, warns of the &#8220;grave scientific, economic and social consequences of current European Union policy towards GM crops\u201d, saying European countries should &#8220;rethink\u201d their widespread rejection of the technology.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/science-policymaking\/chief-eu-scientist-backs-damning-news-530693?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=EurActivRSS\" >www.euractiv.com\/science-policymaking\/chief-eu-scientist-backs-damning-news-530693?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=EurActivRSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: genetically modified organisms, GMOs, European Union policy, environmentalists, EU member states, scientific studies<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Studies linking genetically modified crops with adverse effects on the environment or animal health are based on &#8220;contested science&rdquo;, according to a recent report by<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2317],"class_list":["post-16987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16987"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}