Global consensus weighing against GMOs as majority of EU nations ban GMO cultivation

European Union (E.U.) standards currently allow certain GMOs to be cultivated within the borders of member countries, but a majority of these member countries have chosen to “opt out” of the program altogether, due to concerns about both safety and necessity, according to reports. And if things keep moving in this direction throughout Europe, there’s a good chance it will spill over into U.S. GMO policy as well.

According to GMO-Free Europe, the following countries have banned cultivation of Monsanto’s MON 810 genetically-modified maize (corn), which is among the few GMOs that can legally be grown in Europe:

• Austria
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• Poland
• Romania
• Switzerland

A color-coded map of European countries with national bans or moratoriums on MON810 or other GMOs can be accessed here.

Europeans give resounding NO to GMO cultivation and use; keep our food clean, they demand

Even so, countries throughout Europe are continuing to investigate the supposed merits of GMOs, as parroted by Big Biotech and its allies, and coming up short on sound evidence. As far as they’re concerned, GMOs are both unsafe and unnecessary – not to mention the fact that most Europeans are opposed to eating them.

Another helpful visual depicting the current status of GMO cultivation throughout Europe is available here.

Europe tells genetic butchers to get out; will the U.S. ever follow suit?

The rest have given the proverbial middle finger to the fake food barons trying to seize control of Europe’s traditional food production systems, which in many ways are still centered around small-scale family farms that grow heirloom crops the old-fashioned way.

“More than half of the European Union’s 28 nations plan to prohibit the cultivation of a group of genetically modified crops awaiting E.U. regulatory approval, marking the first use by individual governments of a new right to go their own way on the planting of biotech foods,” reports AgWeb.com.

“Nineteen E.U. countries have demanded that all or part of their territory be shielded from eight pending applications to grow gene-altered crops in the bloc, according to the European Commission.”

Meanwhile, in the U.S., Congress is trying to put the fix in on state-level GMO labeling initiatives, contending that they’re out of line with the “settled science” on GMOs. American consumers, on the other hand, have overwhelmingly indicated in poll after poll that they want to know what they’re eating, and support mandatory GMO labeling.

Article: http://www.naturalnews.com/052254_GMOs_European_legislation_unlabeled_food.html

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