The chair of Efsa’s GMO panel, Professor Joe Perry said that its 20 academic experts would provide a stringent regulatory buffer against any threat to the environment or human health.

“Half a billion European consumers can be assured that when an opinion declares food from a GM crop plant to be safe, it can be consumed with confidence,” he said. “The current delay in approvals to import and cultivate GM crops within the EU is due to political disagreements, not due to disagreements over the quality of the risk assessments.”

Yes, there's absolutely no disagreement. Everyone in on the same page that only good can come from patenting and privatising life and food to a handful of multinationals. After all they are the most trustworthy people in the world.

What can possibly go wrong, say in a few generations, when gardeners and farmers are no longer able to freely save and plant their own seed without paying royalties to a bio-tech corporation? This is definitely the way to go, especially if we want to feed the poor of the world. Yes sir, you are a genius.