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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"America does not regulate such products like Europe"

hows that?[/quote]

EU has stronger rules for regulating both food additives and GMO in food chain. [/quote]

EU regulating GMOs is just one the more insane regulations in that bizarre confederation.  GMOs are safe and moreover, nothing about GMOs are, with solid scientific footing, theoretically unsafe.  The basis for this ban in Europe originally wasn’t even safety.

They regulate food completely differently and only part of those regulations have to do with safety.  [/quote]

Au contraire

Many countries have strict rules for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) because of their controversial use and the perceived risks to human health, animal welfare, and the environment. Many believe that GMOs offer little to no advantage to agriculture and food production while carrying substantial risks. The  main concerns about adverse effects of GM foods on health are the transfer of antibiotic resistance, toxicity and allergenicity. Practical concerns around GM crops include the rise of insect pests and weeds that are resistant to pesticides.

Many countries have banned or restricted the cultivation and importation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including:

Russia  bans  both the cultivation and importation of GMOs, except for scientific research. Russia is the most populated country to ban GMOs.

Mexico  bans GMOs, citing the precautionary principle to protect the health of the Mexican people and environment.

European Union (EU) EU countries have the right to block farmers from growing GMOs. Some countries that have banned GMO cultivation in the EU include Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, and Poland.

Other countries  Algeria, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Peru, and Venezuela have banned both GMO imports and GMO cultivation.

In addition to countries that have banned GMOs[b], about 60 other countries have significant restrictions on GMOs[/b]

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Au contraire nothing.

GMOs are safe and moreover, nothing about GMOs are, with solid scientific footing, theoretically unsafe. 
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Most of the world disagrees with you and most scientists who are not funded by Monsanto concede that there is not enough long term research to understand likely long term impacts of GMO on people, the food chain and the environment. There is insufficient evidence that the benefits outweigh the many risks. It is impossible to reverse once unleashed.

Also, when farmers purchase GMO seed, they enter into contracts with seed companies and sign an agreement to purchase new seed each year and not save seed from their crops to plant the following year. So once GMO crops are started, farmers are trapped into financial dependence with seed companies such as Monsanto.  Monsanto was the world’s largest seed company and owned over 80% of all the genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered) seeds planted around the world. Bayer, the second largest agrochemical company in the world, bought Monsanto for $63 billion. Bayer now owns 33% of the global seed market and 23% of the agrochemical market.

Monsanto funds much of the pro GMO propaganda in the US and lobbies against serious discussions around the many risks and ethics of GMO that takes place in most other countries. [b]Contrary to the Monsanto GMO gospel, being pro science does not make one automatically pro GMO.[/b]

[b]Opinion: I Was Lured Into Monsanto’s GMO Crusade. Here’s What I Learned.[/b]
As a once-vocal supporter of the company’s GMO push, I learned that debates about science are never just about science.
https://undark.org/2019/06/27/monsanto-gmo-crusade/

[b]You'll Never Guess How Much Bayer and Monsanto Spend on Lobbying[/b]
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/youll-never-guess-how-much-bayer-and-monsanto-spend-lobbying-2016-09-16#

[b]Genetic Literacy Project: PR front for Monsanto, Bayer and the chemical industry[/b]

https://usrtk.org/industry-pr/jon-entine-genetic-literacy-project/

Genetic Literacy Project is an influential front group that partners with Bayer and other chemical companies to promote GMO foods and pesticides and argue for deregulation. Bayer paid the Genetic Literacy Project $100,000 from July 2020 to June 2021 for its work “to prevent legislative overreach in genetic engineering,” according to the group’s IRS form 990. Donor’s Trust, the secretive funding vehicle that funds attacks on climate science, is also a donor.

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