But most EU citizens reject GMOs as scary "Frankenfoods".
If the WTO struck down an EU ban on GMOs, European governments might find it impossible to override consumer fears—however irrational for the sake of free trade.
This should include an indefinite moratorium on the production and marketing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and immediate reduction of agrochemicals use.
Related: Latest Dr Oz accusations have more to do with GMOs than diet Gilbert Ross, one of the doctors who signed the letter, is the acting president and executive director of the American Council of Science and Health, which has previously received grants from Monsanto, a manufacturer of GMO seeds.
Jim Thomas, the former Greenpeace activist who first told Lynas about GMOs and lived with him for a few months, says: "Lynas was a player, but not a very important player, and for a very short period of time.
He was influential – a co-founder of the magazine Corporate Watch who'd written the first article about the evils of Genetically Modified Organisms [GMOs] and Monsanto, the multinational biotech company whose work with GMOs was to become notorious.
By the time of Earth First!'s next gathering, GMOs had "become the next big thing".
Many of his beliefs about GMOs were predicated on an extravagant dismissal of the scientific consensus.
In the shows he defended GMOs and nuclear power.
And Europe's agonies over GMOs illustrate the problems that arise when science is not well integrated into policymaking.
Despite repeated studies finding no risk to human health from the consumption of GMOs, just one such crop (a form of maize) is cultivated in the EU, and in only a handful of countries.
