Closely related to the beef dispute is the case of genetically modified (GM) foods .
If it comes, the salmon will become the first genetically modified (GM) animal approved for human consumption.
Wambugu concedes that genetically modified (GM) crops are experimental but insists the potential good far outweighs the risks.
Whether or not it has a solid rational basis, lots of people are suspicious of genetically modified (GM) foods and the businesses that produce them.
They like agricultural research but loathe genetically modified (GM) plants.
In early October the environmental group Greenpeace said it had more than a million signatures supporting its call for a halt to the sowing of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe.
There are so many examples, such as how we feel about genetically-modified (GM) foods.
It will allow countries to reject imports of genetically-modified (GM) goods if they can cite valid scientific reasons.
But the one issue above all that sets Labour and the campaigners at each others' throats is the introduction of genetically-modified (GM) crops.
In a BBC Wales lecture in February, he spoke in favour of genetically-modified (GM) crops as an important component in future efforts to feed a growing world population.
She dismissed concerns from outside the US that genetically-modified (GM) foods could harm human health as "unsubstantiated", and addressed drug trafficking and the employment of former nuclear weapons scientists.
The year ended particularly badly for activists when the White House reversed its political opposition to approving the first animal genetically modified for human consumption, a GM slamon that scientists at the Food and Drug Administration had determined was perfectly safe and nutritious.
The recent hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini GM maize study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetically modified crops has obscured another line of attack on biotechnology: claims that GM crops are environmentally unfriendly.
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The report, The Use of Genetically Modified Animals, did acknowledge the potential risk from GM animals escaping into the environment and breeding with non-GM animals.
More recently, Brazil has also been importing genetically modified soya seeds and is now the world's second-largest user of GM after the United States.
Campaigners in favour of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) hope that developments in this area will lessen public opposition to GM food.
Dr Lutman believes there could be further problems if, in the future, GM beet and rape were grown in rotation with cereals which were also genetically modified to be tolerant to the same herbicide.
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In the 1990s China was one of the first countries to approve some genetically modified cash crops, such as cotton and corn, and today China has more acreage devoted to growing GM crops than just about any other country in the world.
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