Without a negative qualified majority against the proposal the Commission says it will pass it, according to the Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner, Tonio Borg.
Germans who didn't want GMO crops in their country are furious at their representatives from abstaining to vote, since their single vote would have made a difference. Peter Simone from the Green's said:
Several other countries in Europe already allow GMO crops, but more have resisted Dow, Monsanto, DuPont, and other companies from taking a stronghold in their neck of the woods."Today the Federal government missed an historic opportunity to be a clear voice against genetic engineering in Europe. The approval of genetically modified maize on European soil puts genetically modified food on consumer's plates. Almost all Germans oppose that."
This GMO corn strain will be grown in a 28-nation bloc even after 13 years of resistance and, several scientific challenges that the genetically modified food is safe, and two legal challenges.
Approval to grow these reprehensible seeds in the EU rests only on a formality now, the go-ahead of the EU Commission, and the bloc's executive arm, but politicians in the EU are refusing to give a timetable for that. Perhaps with enough push back from impassioned citizens, there is still hope to keep it from taking over all of Europe.
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