Growing GMOs is completely banned in the two most populous countries, China and India, along with Russia, and many more countries. In the EU there’s only one variety which is allowed to be grown (maize), and Spain is the country with the highest amount (20% of their maize production).
(Random fun fact, in Hungary they even introduced a clause in their constituition against growing GMOs for some reason)
To me it’s clear that something went badly wrong with the introdcution of the technology when so many countries have actively banned it.
(I’m talking about banning the growing of it, not the importing of it for animal feed, which many of these countries do)
I think China, in the last few years, has approved a few crops (from here, lots of interesting sections).
Maybe that’s why I’m more optimistic, despite the public being against GMOs (In 201846.7% of respondents had negative views of GMOs and14% viewed GMOs as a form of bioterrorism aimed at China), China leadership is still pushing ahead with them as it benefits the country.
Over time the countries that don’t use GMOs will either have to import, give larger subsidies to their farmers, or have people complain about why their food costs so much vs neighbouring countries.
I’m not so sure it has gone ‘badly’ wrong vs other tech innovations but I’m not as well read on tech adoption and the ups and downs of going from innovation to mass usage.
Growing GMOs is completely banned in the two most populous countries, China and India, along with Russia, and many more countries. In the EU there’s only one variety which is allowed to be grown (maize), and Spain is the country with the highest amount (20% of their maize production).
(Random fun fact, in Hungary they even introduced a clause in their constituition against growing GMOs for some reason)
To me it’s clear that something went badly wrong with the introdcution of the technology when so many countries have actively banned it.
(I’m talking about banning the growing of it, not the importing of it for animal feed, which many of these countries do)
I think China, in the last few years, has approved a few crops (from here, lots of interesting sections).
Maybe that’s why I’m more optimistic, despite the public being against GMOs (In 2018 46.7% of respondents had negative views of GMOs and 14% viewed GMOs as a form of bioterrorism aimed at China), China leadership is still pushing ahead with them as it benefits the country.
Over time the countries that don’t use GMOs will either have to import, give larger subsidies to their farmers, or have people complain about why their food costs so much vs neighbouring countries.
I’m not so sure it has gone ‘badly’ wrong vs other tech innovations but I’m not as well read on tech adoption and the ups and downs of going from innovation to mass usage.