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In May this year, Baroness Hayman of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food launched a consultation on the future of the food chain. As a result, the Food Chain and Crops for Industry Panel produced a report outlining various possible scenarios of what life might be like with or without biotechnology.
There are many possible future worlds, they say. There is the Brave World, 'where the benefits of scientific advances have been realised throughout the food chain, generating enormous commercial opportunities from technology transfers and attended benefits to consumers'. Then there is the New World where 'the population has resented and resisted many …