Professor of the Peruvian National University of Agriculture, Antonieta Gutierrez Rosati, has emphasized the importance of preventing indiscriminate use of GMOs. Caution is needed to protect the population and prevent adverse environmental effects in the future, she said in an interview with El Comercio, a Peruvian newspaper. She said focusing on short term economic gains without considering potentially negative, long term effects GMOs, is an “incoherent economic model.” “The use of GMOs and their liberation into the environment without previous analysis could produce irreversible damage,” she said.
Despite warnings, the debate between those in favor of and against genetically modified seeds in Peru continues. A year after the debate started, the authorities responsible for preventing the use of these organisms have yet to make any decisions on the subject, expressing little interest on the topic of bio-security.
Similar debates have arisen in other countries, although in Peru, the use of GMOs is still fairly new.
