GM food: dinner discussion. The mystery 50%

By Jason Major

TechNyou

That 50% quoted by Peter Langridge and also in our YouTube video on food security has been questioned: where did that figure come from? A fair question and unfortunately for us we stuffed up, or more precisely, Peter did.  Amanda Hudswell, the communications manager at ACPFG, has confirmed that Peter unintentionally used the figure of 50% in the context of how much extra food we need to produce in the next 40 years to ensure food security. He meant  to quote the figure from the PMSEIC report of 70%. Peter was chair of the Expert Working Group that produced this report.

Peter was the source for the figure for the food security video, so this means the figure used in our food security is wrong and apologies to the audience of GM food: a dinner discussion and the twitterverse people following on #GTmenu for misleading you

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