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Actually, the problem IS with GMO plants in Europe. > ...among those [Europeans] who know what GMOs are, 59 percent of surveyed citizens believe they are unhea
by deweller 13y ago
Actually, the problem IS with GMO plants in Europe.
> ...among those [Europeans] who know what GMOs are, 59 percent of surveyed citizens believe they are unhealthy, with only 22 percent believing they are not.
> In its history, the European Union has only approved two genetically modified organisms for cultivation: Monsanto’s MON810 maize, in 1998 (which was renewed in 2009), and BASF’s Amflora potatoes, in 2010.
- _pmf_ 13y ago> > ...among those [Europeans] who know what GMOs are, 59 percent of surveyed citizens believe they are unhealthy, with only 22 percent believing they are not. It would be nice to correlate this with the percentage of people who are considering dihydrogen monoxide to be unhealthy.
- qb45 13y agoThe herbicides Mosanto's GM plants are resistant to aren't exactly H₂O.
- talmand 13y agoYou shouldn't joke about that stuff. I know for a fact that every single creature that has ever consumed it later dies.
- mikeash 13y agoThat's just plain wrong. Only about 90% of humans who have consumed it have died.
- freehunter 13y agoThe rest are in various stages of dying.
- gutnor 13y agoThere are 2 things: 1. GMO is famous for making crop that produce herbicide or other sort of toxin, terminator seeds, or stuff that resist to things that you would not like to be sprayed on your food. Bad PR. "Technically cool" food is not a selling point in Europe. 2. Recently the industry has proven that they will fraud on actual existing regulation with the meat crisis in Europe and nobody has forgotten the other various food crisis from the 2 last decades. There is a massive distrust of the food industry, and the GMO has as much potential for good than for bad.