The Conversation
GM Crops: the West versus the Rest
GM crops have been on sale in the USA since 1996 and in many other countries for a considerable number of years. Since then, there hasn’t been a single proven case of ill health due to their consumption, either by humans or animals. Why, therefore, is it that so many countries in the West, particularly those in the European Union, but also in the Nordic countries and some parts of the USA are so anti GM crops? https://www.saynotogmos.org/
Adding to this seeming conundrum is the fact
that almost every major scientific association
world-wide has come to the conclusion that GM
crops are as safe for human and animal
consumption as conventional ones – and this includes organic crops. Examples of these associations include the Royal Society of London, the French Academy of Medicine, and the Academy of Science of the United States.
This makes scientists like me, living in South Africa where GM crops have been growing commercially since 1997/8, wonder why this evidence did not put a stop to the GMO controversy long ago?