Ministers' problems over genetically modified foods are more serious than disputes over one scientist's research project.
Now Ronald, 49, and Adamchak, 55, have become proselytizers for the marriage of genetically modified foods and organic farming.
So it is hardly surprising that Europeans want to make up their own minds about buying genetically modified foods.
Austria and Luxembourg have flatly refused to do so for genetically modified foods.
It could quickly escalate, since America and Europe are also at odds over hormone-treated beef, genetically modified foods and much else.
In many labelling arguments particularly those over genetically modified foods in Europe America is making exactly the opposite case, decrying enforced labelling as protectionist.
But once genetically modified foods are out in the environment it is pretty hard to recall them, regardless of what politicians would like.
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Many funds already keep a close watch on how firms deal with a variety of controversies, from genetically modified foods to third-world labour standards.
Resistance to genetically modified foods, technical difficulties, legal and business obstacles and the ability to develop improved foods without genetic engineering have winnowed the pipeline.
For Mr Goldsmith, the problem of genetically modified foods is symptomatic of the wider defects of transnational capitalism and his big campaign is now against globalisation.
Attitudes may change when the next wave of genetically modified foods, which have been engineered for consumer-friendly traits such as higher vitamin content, emerge from the laboratory.
Currently ahead of petitions on nuclear policy and the labeling of genetically modified foods is a petition demanding that Casey Anthony be tried in federal court for lying.
This contrasts directly with the US position, opening up the possibility of trade disputes similar to the lengthy and costly row between the EU and US over genetically modified foods.
We've talked about genetically modified foods, well, now we're here in the day and age, and people are going to be starving to death if we don't figure that out scientifically.
A. for decades, and no agency, in the United States or anywhere else, has found evidence that genetically modified foods are metabolized by the body any differently from any other type of food.
When I asked Lisa about her involvement, she said that Smith presented a point of view that needed to be heard, and that the safety of genetically modified foods has not been proved.
EU's ban on imports of hormone-treated beef and genetically-modified foods, for instance.
Closely related to the beef dispute is the case of genetically modified (GM) foods .
The same FDA policy applies to both genetically engineered and conventionally modified foods.
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Whether or not it has a solid rational basis, lots of people are suspicious of genetically modified (GM) foods and the businesses that produce them.
There are so many examples, such as how we feel about genetically-modified (GM) foods.
On November 6 Californians will be asked to cast their ballot on Proposition 37, which would require mandatory labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients.
She dismissed concerns from outside the US that genetically-modified (GM) foods could harm human health as "unsubstantiated", and addressed drug trafficking and the employment of former nuclear weapons scientists.
The recent hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini GM maize study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetically modified crops has obscured another line of attack on biotechnology: claims that GM crops are environmentally unfriendly.
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While many health advocates say eating genetically-modified plants appears to be safe, some say foods containing such organisms should be labeled as such.
In 1992 the country's Food and Drug Administration decided that genetically modified products would have to meet the same standards as all other foods, but no new ones.
Except for wild game, wild mushrooms, wild berries and fish and shellfish, virtually all the food in European and American diets has long been derived from genetically modified organisms yes, even the organic stuff at Whole Foods and the local farmers market.
Much Soya, found in many foods, is modified and much bread is nowadays produced with a genetically-modified yeast.
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