Philippines GMO ban is the Precautionary Principle in action

The Ecologist
Dec 16, 2015, 6:41 am98 pts
The Precautionary Principle must mean, above all, avoiding the risk of ruinous outcomes for people or the wider environment, write Rupert Read & David Burnham. When the Philippines Supreme Court applied that test to GMOs, they found they had to ban them - not as a moral choice but pragmatically, to avoid…

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