Conflicting GM reports

IN his otherwise excellent article, ‘GM food debate will soon be on the main menu’ (October 31), Brian O’Mahony said how, to date, “the EU has stood steadfast and banned the use of GM crops in Europe”. But the previous day, EuropaBio reported that more than 110,000 hectares of GM crops were successfully harvested in the EU this year.

Contrast that with what the European Commission itself reported in January when it said “the EU is the world’s largest importer of GM crops”.

Given all this conflicting information, how does the ordinary reader make an informed choice? I’d have thought that if the NGOs were correct in their continued repetition that no one wanted GM crops, then sensible farmers wouldn’t keep on growing them year after year.