Crops For Continental Climate Change

More than 1000 scientists, including 37 Nobel Prize winners, signed an open letter to the European Union (EU). That document asks the EU to relax its rules on Genetic Modification (GM) for crop development. Currently, GM crops are largely banned in the EU (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/19/nobel-laureates-call-on-eu-to-relax-rules-on-genetic-modification). GM includes, of course, both 'gene splicing' (inserting a gene from one organism, into another species) and, more recent, gene editing techniques (where individual DNA bases are altered). It seems rather strange, that GM is broadly approved for medical developments (like the production of insulin; human growth hormone or vaccines) but largely banned for so-called 'Frankenstein foods'. The letter's signatories, argue that traditional selective breeding techniques are too slow to produce crops, capable of thriving in a quickly changing climate. Using GM, would enable EU agricultural scientists to produce heat-; salt- and disease- tolerant crops, much more quickly. This request, currently seems like a 'no-brainer'!