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GM
1abbreviation for
- General Manager.
- genetically modified; genetic modification.
- Grand Marshal.
gm.
2abbreviation for
- gram 1; f grams.
gm
1the internet domain name for
- Gambia
GM
2abbreviation for
- general manager
- genetically modified
- (in Britain) George Medal
- Grand Master
- grant-maintained
Example Sentences
You may end up buying your vases at a thrift store or online, but wholesale accessory stores like Moskatels at the Original Los Angeles Flower Market and GM Floral Co., which covers the second floor of the Southern California Flower Market as well as a much smaller space at the original market, can provide inspiration too.
GM, a much older technology, involves adding new genes to plants and animals to make them more productive or disease-resistant.
“If you remove these plants and animals from GM regulations then you don’t have the same degree of risk assessment, you don’t have labelling and you risk markets because many of them regulate them as GMOs,” she says.
GM crops were publicly trampled by protestors who saw this as a technology that they didn’t need, want or consider safe.
Gene editing seems to be a more palatable version of GM to some, arriving at a time when the debate is less polarised, the need for environmental solutions is even more urgent and there seems to be a greater readiness for some scientists and campaigners to see each other’s perspectives.
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