2009-10-15 | permalink

GMOs and insurance: risks and rewards

In the U.S. for example, many people don’t seem to care too much about GMOs. This is to a large extent due to the regulatory concept of ’substantial equivalence’ which means that agricultural GMOs are generally recognized as safe and are therefore not subject to labeling in the U.S. [...] In Europe, the majority of consumers and many NGOs don’t want genetically modified crops. [...] You cannot see or feel the difference; you cannot taste it and, if it wasn’t labeled, no one would ever realize GMOs are there. [...] Consumers cannot easily recognize the benefits of genetically modified products, but they realize that there are potential risks.

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