Mr Bowie was speaking in light of the speech given by Mark Lynas at the Oxford Farming Conference, in which the environmentalist spoke of his 'science-based' conversion from opponent to supporter of genetically modified crops.
The Fife farmer said that he agreed with Mr Lynas and believed that Scotland had a dogma surrounding biotech which needed to be quashed before the country was left lagging behind pro-GM competitors.
(For the full story see The Scottish Farmer this week, January 12 2013)
