The pro-science community has recently chalked up several important wins in Europe. First, on January 24, the powerful environment committee of the European Parliament backed the reform of the cumbersome regulatory system to allow ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs) to be used in crop breeding. (NGTs include gene editing tools like CRISPR, which can develop better crops more rapidly than conventional breeding but don’t necessarily introduce new DNA.)
 
Then, on February 7, the whole Parliament voted in favor of the reform (by 307 votes to 263), despite howls of outrage from antis who condemn NGTs as ‘new GMOs.’
 
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