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77% of British farmers want ban on GMOs lifted

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 7, 2019
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Submitted by Hank on Wed, 08/07/2019 - 09:22
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77% of British farmers know GM crops are safe and sustainable and would plant them if government lifted the ban. When Boris Johnson vowed to liberate the UK’s bioscience sector from the anti-science stranglehold, he may have been onto something.

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