World Leaders To Promote Safety of GM Crops, Livestock

During a recent meeting in Japan, involving Ag leaders from the G-20 counties, innovation, specifically genetic modification of plants and animals took center stage.  There are several countries that oppose such technologies even though the practices have been proven safe.  Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue said he and his counterparts from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico, have all agreed to get the facts out to consumers worldwide.

“Assuring other less developed countries of the safety and the need for new technology in agriculture and to help persuade our consultancies in all of our countries over the safety and the health of all of our products that we are providing to them,” Perdue noted.

He added something must be done to address the, “paranoia that's on social media and other places to take over so people fear their food.”

Perdue said with a world population set to flirt with 10 billion by the middle portion of this century, it will take every bit of sound science and innovation to feed that growing population.

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