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No EU options? :'(
by yvely 2y ago
No EU options? :'(
- clarionbell 2y agoVery much illegal in EU. You would be facing anthrax level penalties for importing or growing them.
- aredox 2y agoImported plants may be out of order because of biosafety and liability laws, but is there a ban anywhere on genetic manipulation of house plants, if done by an EU company?
- clarionbell 2y agoIn principle there isn't. But there are laws about introduction of such organisms. So it's fine to do that in a lab. But the moment you put the plant in a pot on your balcony you are in trouble. You need official approval for that. But obtaining it is borderline impossible. Not even the biggest agrotech corporations are trying anymore. There are only a handful of approved organisms, and some countries in EU go even further and ban them as well. So nobody can use them, so nobody will sell them, so nobody will develop them. There is an ongoing effort to bypass these restrictions for CRISPR based technologies. But who knows how effective will that be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetic_engineering#European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_genetic_engineer...
- throw310822 2y agoSometimes I have to agree with Victoria Nuland.
- randomcarbloke 2y agothey'll just seize, destroy, and notify, you'd never even see them.