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In reply to the discussion: Dr Jane Goodall: supporters of GM food deluded & ‘anti-science’ (backs new anti-GM book) [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Switzerland, Australia, Mexico among others. In 2013 eg, there were 26 countries with bans on GMOs, and in several countries, some regions have banned them. Countries like Thailand eg, which was iffy on them, had their products blocked by nations like Japan due to 'safety concerns'.
The latest to ban them is Russia, and the EU has passed legislation allowing member nations to ban them, a bill that has satisfied neither side so will most likely be revised. An overwhelming majority of people in European countries do not want GMOS.
In a total of 30 countries as of this past year, GMOs are banned either totally or in several regions of the countries.
Here's the deal. I do not want to be a guinea pig for any big Corporation, so I will not buy or eat GMOs, we buy from local farmers and grow our own as do most of our neighbors.
More the 50% of the studies that supposedly claim GMOs are safe were done by GMO Corporations' scientists.
Several other scientific studies contradict their findings and as a result, there is huge and growing opposition to them around the globe.
64 countries require GMO foods to be labeled.
Third World countries are the most likely to have these GMOs forced on them, for now. That is not to say the PEOPLE want them.
In India there is huge opposition especially from farmers, which hopefully will eventually join the growing number of nations now banning them.
In scientific studies GMOs have been linked to cancer, among other things.
So you go ahead and eat whatever you want, but don't try to force those who do not trust what Monsanto wants to put into their bodies, to do the same.
It's interesting that just a short few years ago, only 16 nations had bans on GMOs. Thanks to scientists and activists the numbers are growing.
No corporation should have control over the world's food supply, I am glad to finally see this huge opposition to GMOs growing every year.
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