US Admin Declares War on Consumers

The US administration is today expected to announce the first formal step towards a WTO challenge against the European Union on its policy concerning genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Greenpeace statement:

The US administration is effectively declaring a war on consumers. But it is a war the US will not win. To launch a WTO case to help the desperate genetic engineering industry to market its unwanted GE products is an insult to the European public. Greenpeace strongly condemns this blatant attempt to bully the European Union and is confident that this will only serve to reinforce consumer rejection of GMOs.

All countries are entitled to refuse GMOs and to demand mandatory labelling of GMO products.

The European Union certainly holds the moral high ground defending the rights of a large majority of its citizens as opposed to the US administration, which is using the WTO to defend narrow industry interests at the expense of the environment and the people's right to choose what they eat.