"Organic farms are not going to feed the poor," Entine states. Biotech farming produces yields, he says, at a rate three to four times higher than conventional farming. It should be presented in the EU as a consumer option. "The EC has very strict regulations for what it allows in the marketplace and what it puts on labels. If the population doesn't want this, they have got their choice."
And of course I do agree much more with BBC.
A problem with science, as you may well know, is that the wheel grinds so slow. Experiments need to be debunked one at the time while these think tanks can produce "science" reports as quick as you can blink and use the growing pile of never de-bunked articles as evidence that their claim to the truth must be the right one. And the press is gobbling it.
