Reply to Organic Centre report on GM crops
PG Economics Ltd has, in quick time, posted a comprehensive critique of the Organic Centre’s recent report, “Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use: the first thirteen years” by Charles Benbrook.
It was a quicker riposte than I expected, but the ‘he says-she says’ game starts again
PG Economics Ltd, who has done other reports investigating the worth of GM crops, has posted a comprehensive critique of the Organic Centre’s recent report, “Impacts of genetically engineered crops on pesticide use: the first thirteen years” by Charles Benbrook.
Obviously they are happy with the analysis of the Bt crops, but disagree on the methodology and analysis of the data overall. The key point PG Economics seem to be making is that Benbrook makes too many personal assumptions and poor extrapolations of the data that make his analysis unreliable.
Full report can be downloaded from here
Jason Major