Many Europeans are profoundly suspicious of genetically modified (GM) food. Most Americans cannot understand what all the fuss is about―or why the Europeans will not buy stuff that America harvests (and eats) by the siloful. The two sides are further apart than ever. On July 2nd the European Parliament approved new regulations on GM food that seem likely to make it even harder to sell in the European Union than it is today. Later this month America, with a handful of allies, may well insist that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) establishes a panel to rule on the legitimacy of the EU'S five-year-old moratorium on the approval of new GM crops.
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