BBC slammed for “lies” about gene-edited foods but it refuses to correct its misreporting gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la… In multiple stories the BBC has hidden the fact that the Govt is “deregulating all manner of genetic manipulations of crops”—Dr Michael Antoniou, Kings College London
The BBC & other UK media have repeated ad nauseam the govt's lie that gene editing only involves “snipping out a small piece of DNA” but anyone who reads the govt's bill will see it includes the insertion of foreign DNA as “part and parcel of the deregulation”—Dr Michael Antoniou
#GMO promoters claim foreign DNA can be removed from gene-edited plants like stitches from a wound. But it's not so clean a process: “The gene-editing tool DNA can fragment & bits can randomly insert in many locations around the DNA of the plant and that is not being checked for”
“At each stage of the gene-editing process, you introduce unintended genetic alterations running into hundreds of thousands.. You end up with a plant that carries a high burden of unintended DNA damage with unknown downstream consequences.” — genetic engineer, Dr Michael Antoniou
Dr Antoniou also dismisses claims gene-edited organisms could have been produced naturally. “There’s no resemblance to the process that occurs naturally. Gene editing is completely and utterly different and it is without doubt an intentional artificial genetic modification” #GMOs 
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