Poland dodges crop genetic modification ban, renews use of GM as animal feed
Poland dodges crop genetic modification ban, renews use of GM as animal feed
Polish farmers will be able to continue using animal fodder containing imported genetically modified soya or other GMO crops for five more years.
President Andrzej Duda on Friday signed off on legislation [that] will postpone a ban on modified fodder that has been planned since 2006. The legislation comes as Poland aligns itself with more lax EU legislation. The law signed by Duda voted through parliament in [September 2024], will prolong the use of GMO in animal fodder from January 2025, when a ban was to take effect, until 2030.
The Ministry of Agriculture, which drafted the bill, buckled to animal-feed industry fears that a ban would hike Polish agricultural prices. Lobbyists had argued that Poland lacked a suitable alternative to GMO fodder, according to [the] industry journal All About Feed. The Polish move follows a change of attitude towards genetically modified products in the European Union, which lessened the impact of anti-GMO legislation in January.
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