The new genetic technologies revolutionize all the ideas on GM
Here come the editing and genomic cisgenesi and the US prepare deregulation now Italy will be forced to rethink its “no”
The illustrations of the service tell the laboratory research made in Italy that the law prevents experiment in open field
” The current rules are well protected public health and the environment. But the progress made by science and technology since 1992 have changed the landscape. Today the public is difficult to understand how it is evaluated the safety of biotechnology. And for small businesses may be too complex to get permissions for this type of product. ” From these words begins the next turn in the game of GMOs. Words that come from the White House, written by John P. Holdren, science adviser to Barack Obama. Announce and explain a choice that can be momentous: after nearly 30 years the United States is prepared to revise laws regulating methods and agricultural technologies. Opening in a deregulation of genetics. And laying the foundation and example for a global revolution.
Nine types of crops
The US multinationals are the country where they grow more GM crops, 73 million hectares in extension and with nine different types of crops. Yet there is also a distortion: the process of testing and health checks to record a new GM product is long and very expensive. Enough to discourage small businesses and small-scale experiments. “To serve a new GM $ 40 million, a figure that no university and only big companies can spend. It is also why there are relatively few market transgenic products. ” To explain is Martina Newell-McGloughlin, a professor and researcher at the University of California. Which confirms the need for deregulation, especially in light of what’s to come. “In the future – confirmation – we will see crops that circumvent rules. GM, but with brand new methods, leaving no trace. It will be impossible to understand the source of the improvement of the plant and, therefore, label it as transgenic. ”
The Future
The GM of the future will be called GM. Brand new exploit techniques like ‘genome editing’ and ‘cisgenesi “, causing a mutation in the genome of the plants, but they do so without inserting foreign genetic material. The result of the process is what you might get from a normal crossing and natural selection. The difference is that a process will be focused and precise, able to improve a crop up to make unnecessary the use of pesticides or the like.
beautiful country unprepared
It’s a huge news that Italy is likely to be unprepared, as it is still grappling with the battle ideological anti-GMO that has long blocked the fieldwork. “You are brooding and developing new patents, but it is a quest that we risk missing out on,” says Roberto Defez, scientist CNR in Naples and for years in the front line against the stop looking. “The new techniques – he continued – we do not take a risk in terms of security, but economic. Our country, in fact, has already lost its industries seed and will eventually fall behind. We end up scrapping our entire agriculture. Unless we re-open the investigation, after 20 years GMOs have not created even a cold, only one proved to damage someone’s health. ” If you really take to process more streamlined and less greedy for new GM, the move by Obama will be a balm for the competition, a blow to the multinationals, the opportunity to expand the catalog and map agricultural biotech. Already, 20 of the 28 countries where it is grown transgenic are emerging. And, compared to the usual corn, soybeans and cotton, there are already examples of “heretics” such as Bt eggplant Bangladesh and sugarcane in Indonesia. “For Italy agriculture is fundamental for the future, not only for tradition – said Alessandro Sidoli, president of Assobiotec -. We have important resources: a good training school and university, and often have excellent researchers in the luggage experiences abroad. Yet we have become a country technophobic and all ideological reasons we were able – on GMOs as animal testing – to impose laws even more restrictive than the European. ”
The stakes
Inside the GMO issue is a lot at stake, much more than you might think. There is the future of researchers here are plastered and often have to work abroad. There is a need to develop and improve – and then really protect – the native crops, what are often the basis for products made in Italy. There is also the opportunity for lost time, to take advantage of things that we do well, to be an agricultural power based on excellence and diversity. And maybe able to understand that there is no contradiction between technological progress and traditional knowledge. “The first thing to do is remove the absurd ban on field research. It is a closure that has already caused the monsters, like the 350 plants of the University of Tuscia – cherry, apple and other trees on which they experimented for years – burned by law in 2012 “. To emphasize this is Daniele Colombo, President dell’Anbi, the National Association of biotechnologists. He adds: “What worries us is this will unscientific, as we have already written to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the Minister of Agriculture Maurizio Martina. All new governments and parliaments, with few exceptions, have shown little interest or outright hostility to innovation and those who try to take it forward. Now serving a new era and a new political class, who want and be able to dialogue and forge relationships with the scientific community. ”
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