Mr Roberts called Greenpeace a disgusting organisation.
Dr Ch Mohan Rao, director CCMB , Sir Richard John Roberts, Nobel Laureate, K. Narasimha Reddy and Ms. Indira Devi Dhanrajgiri at the CCMB and Telangana academy of Sciences. (Photo: DC)
Hyderabad: Sir Richard John Roberts, a Nobel winning geochemist and molecular biologist said on Monday in Hyderabad that he was building an advocacy group for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) which already had 75 other Nobel laureates on board. Speaking at a lecture organised by the Center for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Mr Roberts termed genetic modification of crops as “precision plant breeding" which was safe scientifically and said that the process of breeding different plant species for developing a better species, which is widely taken up in India and many other nations, has not yet been proven to be unsafe. He said that if GMO was not taking this up then “people will starve to death”.
Speaking to the media, Mr Roberts called Greenpeace a “disgusting organisation”, which along with other bodies, were spreading lies. He also rejected the theory of anti-GMO crusaders that GMO might affect agri-biodiversity. However, around 75 top scientists in India are against GMO.
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