Background for Vatican Conference on Genetically Modified Foods

John Allen offer some background to th econference at the Gregorian University, co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, titled “Feeding a Hungry World: The Moral Imperative of Biotechnology.”After presenting some of the background he concludes saying… “Vatican sources told NCR Sept. 24 that an explicit statement on genetically modified crops is unlikely from the Holy See in the near future, but that most officials seem inclined to give it a “yellow light,” meaning “proceed with caution.”

John Allen