Biotech war: Classic SC battle

It may not be hogging the media limelight, but the legal battle before the Supreme Court on issues hounding the role of modern agricultural biotechnology may just prove to be an interesting one.

As we previously discussed in this column, the legal war pits the country’s science community spearheaded by the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB), several agencies under the agriculture and environment departments and a handful of research organizations against the giant European activist group Greenpeace.