There are enough reasons to suspect a health impact. Besides, food output per se is not a huge problem in India
India has too many enviable strengths of its own to do something only because a group of other countries is doing it. But it will be great folly for it not to take serious note of the fact that, recently, 17 out of 28 countries of European Union (EU), along with large regions of UK and Belgium, have said ‘no’ to genetically modified (GM) crops.
The 17 countries are: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, and Slovenia.
These countries represent 65 per cent of EU population and 65 per cent of EU arable land. They have, I strongly believe and as time will show, done the right thing..............Read more
Source: Business Line
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