Just to point out that the "Entine" quoted here is a professional propagandist of the American Enterprise Institute. The argument "GM foods are needed to feed the poor" is a subset of "dumping our agricultural over-production is helping feed the poor" (when in fact it drives small farmers in poor countries out of business). I find it parallel to the sempiternal: "we need more growth to create jobs". The WTO decision is about the US force-selling GM exports to Europe, that Europe does not want. The argument about consumer choice is bogus. We will not find these products on our supermarket shelves with GM written in dayglo orange. American soy and corn will go into cattle feed, mixed with non-GM. Will the chicken, pork, beef, yoghurt, cheese, be labeled GM? How long will a labeling system last, when the food production chain has GM stuff mixed in everywhere?
The argument "GM foods are needed to feed the poor" is a subset of "dumping our agricultural over-production is helping feed the poor" (when in fact it drives small farmers in poor countries out of business). I find it parallel to the sempiternal: "we need more growth to create jobs".
The WTO decision is about the US force-selling GM exports to Europe, that Europe does not want. The argument about consumer choice is bogus. We will not find these products on our supermarket shelves with GM written in dayglo orange. American soy and corn will go into cattle feed, mixed with non-GM. Will the chicken, pork, beef, yoghurt, cheese, be labeled GM? How long will a labeling system last, when the food production chain has GM stuff mixed in everywhere?
