No end in sight on GMO ban

The anti-GMO members of the EU are raising a new round of objections that are likely to keep GMO crops from being planted for years to come. Thus while the EU Commission last week proposed a set of GMO-friendly regulations, environmental ministers at the national level remain deeply opposed to biotech crops.

No new GMOs have been authorized for planting or use in the EU since the spring of 1998. And while several GMO crops are allowed on the market, with the exception of about 60,000 acres of Bt corn grown in Spain last year, no GMOs are planted in the EU...