Bad image of genetically engineered food

According to marketresearch firm HealthFocus, 87 percent of consumers in industry- andemerging countries assume that food without genetically engineeredorganisms is healthier. 55 percent of those consider genetically modifiedplants to be damaging for the environment.

In Europe, 90percent of the people questioned have health concerns, in the USA, Canada,Brazil and Mexico 88 percent. In the Asian Area, including Australia,it is 83 percent on average. For the survey, according to thespecialist medium FoodNavigator-USA, HealthFocus has questioned 2,300consumers from the United States as well as 500 to a 1,000 from Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Spain, Japan, China,Indonesia, the Philippines as well as other countries.

Geneticallymodified plants are almost always resistant to weed killers, withwhich they are systematically sprinkled. Or they produce their owntoxin to kill insects. Except for transgenic corn in Spain, hardlyany genetically engineered plants are grown in the EU. However, largequantities of genetically engineered soy and corn are exportedoverseas, which are fed to animals in conventional fattening systems.