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Originally posted by /)eathKiller:
umm what does this mean for us Americans?
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Weeeeeell, it means that the US won't be able to export GM food to the EU unless it's properly labelled as such. In Europe, the majority of people (or consumers, as we're all known as these days) are agin GM foods. If foods are labelled GM, they won't have the biggest market.
Personally, I don't tend to buy American foods anyway, because the same products are all available, pretty much, of European origin, and why pay for apples that have been shipped all the way from the US of A when I can get ones that were grown locally? Environmentally, it's just madness. I can see the point in importing US products that we can't get locally or within the EU, but otherwise, it's bonkers.
Happy to buy bananas from the Caribbean, for example, cos we can't grow them here. Likewise coconuts from Africa. But apples from the US? Give me a break. (Nothing against US apples - I'm sure they're lovely! [img]smile.gif[/img] )