WTO may usher in GM

IF THE men in white coats can’t get their genetically modified foods onto the dining tables of Europe via the World Trade Organisation, the sugar bowl is their next best bet.

European consumers, still unequivocally anti-GM, are on a collision course with the WTO, and they have only a month to wait for the impact, to the end of February.

That’s when the WTO office in Geneva will announce the results of their arbitration on complaints by Canada, Argentina and the US, that EU member states are blocking GM imports.