Вы как то отделяете европейсике корпорации от населения. Одно производно от другого.bulochka wrote:Если европейским потребителям не нравятся ГМО продукты, то зачем европейским компаниям заниматься их разработкой? Элементарно невыгодно. Рынка-то нет.European farmers are likely to fall behind in the competitive world grain market as EU consumer hostility to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) drives away research and prevents cultivation of high-yield and pest-resistant crops.
The European Union has approved only one GMO grain for cultivation - Monsanto's insect-resistant MON810 maize (corn). Fierce opposition has led Germany, Austria, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg and Bulgaria to ban it.
A moratorium in France, Europe's largest grain exporter, was annulled for legal reasons in November, but the government has said it aims to reinstate the ban before spring sowing starts in some regions at the end of this month.
Farmers and scientists say, however, that GMO maize has shown it can improve output and cut costs.
"It's clear that in continents where they have access to these GMO techniques, they will go faster than in Europe," Fabien Lagarde, director at French oilseeds technical institute Cetiom, said.
"So Europe will lose in terms of competitiveness compared with the rest of the world, notably for maize," he added.
French farm group AGPM provided data on the results of using MON810 maize on over 22,000 hectares in 2007, the year before France imposed its moratorium. The GMO strain prevented an average loss in yields from pests of 0.5 tonnes per hectare, an advantage worth about 100 euros per hectare, it found.
This included the additional cost of 35 to 40 euros per hectare for GMO seeds over conventional ones, AGPM Deputy Director Cedric Poeydomenge said.
MON810 helped farmers save 8,800 litres of pesticide and 30,000 litres of fuel to spread it, AGPM said.
Some of the world's top seed makers have given up on developing GMOs for the European market, including BASF Plant Science, Syngenta and BayerCropScience.
Biotech companies such as Monsanto, Limagrain and KWS SAAT have cut research on small-scale projects in the few EU countries that allow GMO cultivation.
Farmers in France, by far the largest EU grains producer and exporter, fear the flight of researchers will have major consequences in the long run.
"All researchers are now abroad. This is an intolerable situation that does not allow us to prepare for the future," Guy Vasseur, chairman of the French Chambers of Agriculture, said.
Весь вопрос как раз в том, почему европецы сторонятся гмо? Они тоже не разбираются и образования не хватает? Типа не дотягивают до уровня американского населения?