Jack Bobo

  • Footprint Forum Report: Holding out for a hero

    IN EUROPE, genetically modified crops have remained in labs while the rest of the world plants more and more. Does the technology need a champion?  It seemed apt that the Footprint Forum to discuss the sensitive issue of genetically modified (GM) crops took… Read More

  • Footprint Forum: GM – Contemptible or Inevitable

    On the 28th of February, members and guests of Footprint Forum gathered at the U.S. Embassy in London to debate GM – Contemptible or Inevitable. The objective of this session was to remove polarised subjectivity from the debate and frame… Read More

  • GM needs a crisis to be accepted

    ONE OF America’s most senior experts on biotechnology has warned that Europe won’t accept genetically modified (GM) foods unless there is a food crisis.   Addressing the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Food, Drink & Agriculture (CIM FDA) group last week,… Read More

  • GM needs a hero

    GENETICALLY MODIFIED foods have very little chance of being accepted in Europe unless celebrity chefs and retailers back them.                           With UK retailers having put expansive GM-free policies… Read More

  • Foodservice industry calls for guidance on GM issues from opinion formers

    THE GOOD and the great of the foodservice industry gathered yesterday for Footprint Forum hosted by the US Department of Agriculture, opened with great aplomb by Deputy Chief of Mission Barbara Stephenson at the US Embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square.… Read More