The State Government’s move to lift the ban on GM crops across most of South Australia prompted the usual responses from those either for or against it. It’s now time for a broader, informed public debate about the social and economic ramifications of GM food in general, argues Rachel A. Ankeny.
The State Government will seek to lift the state’s long-standing ban on genetically-modified crops beginning next year for much of South Australia, but Kangaroo Island will continue with the moratorium.
Today, a reader gets stuck into his council over dying street trees, more correspondence on the wisdom or otherwise of growing GM crops in South Australia, and disappointment at Julie Bishop’s resignation.
In today’s Notes on Adelaide, a third contender emerges for the Lord Mayorship, the State Government appoints an economist with established pro-genetically modified crop views to review the state’s ban, and we offer a sneak peek inside SA Health’s media handling of its own minister.