The Commission should be welcomed for acknowledging a problem with their food safety authority, but it needs to go further.
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This is the report that the WTO didn't want the public to see. It reveals that the big corporations that stand behind the WTO failed to get the big win they were hoping for. Free trade proponents needed a clear victory in this dispute to be able to push governments in the EU and the developing world to accept genetically modified food. They failed and now is the time to build a consensus that the WTO, with its business-only agenda, is the wrong place to decide on what people eat and how we protect our environment.Adrian Bebb
The EU is going to be bruised. It might be a moral victory for industry but that's about it. It's fairly obvious that they (WTO) will come out against the national bans.
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The WTO has bluntly ruled that European safeguards should be sacrificed to benefit biotech corporations.
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Opposition to genetically modified foods is likely to increase if the WTO decides that European safeguards should be sacrificed to benefit biotech corporations. The WTO, the US administration and biotech firms should stop their bullying and let Europeans decide what food we eat.
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