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As Les Levidow and the others pointed out, a knowledge based decision has to value judgement. We first consider which effects are acceptable and secondly, the knowledge we have to reach our decisions to approve. Is the uncertainty too important or low enough? Has the opinion of organic farmers been considered? They rejected artificial fertilizer already in the 1920s, although there was not any risk assessment at that time. The organic farmers were not understood. It was only in the 1960s and the 1970s when environmentalists understood that overdoing artificial fertilizers will have negative environmental effects. The same happened with pesticides: Organic farmers rejected pesticides already in the 1930s and the 1940s, again there was no real risk assessment basis for this judgement.
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Ammann, K., Jacot, Y., Kjellsson, G., Simonsen, V. (1999). Discussion session 8: Conclusion, strategies, where do we go from here?. In: Ammann, K., Jacot, Y., Kjellsson, G., Simonsen, V. (eds) Methods for Risk Assessment of Transgenic Plants. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8700-7_27
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