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Last week, Poland became the
fourteenth country in Europe to ban
GMOs. One week later, the list of countries against genetically engineered crops has grown, with an estimated
17 EU nations
in favor of boycotting
GM maize and Monsanto altogether.
Rebecca Evans, the Welsh Deputy Minister for Farming and Food,
announced that the country of Wales will take advantage of new EU rules allowing countries to opt out of growing Eu-authorized GM crops.
She
says that the nation plans to ban GM corn as well as 7 other GM crops authorized by the EU.
In a
press release shared by Greenpeace, it is relayed that at least
17 EU countries and four regions (in two other countries)
are in the process of banning the cultivation of GM crops on their territories. The cut-off for nations to join the opt-out was October 3 of this year.
By October 5, thirteen EU countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, France,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and
Poland)
and four regional administrations (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
in the UK, and Wallonia in Belgium) had formally notified the
Commission of their intention to ban
GM crop cultivation.
At the time of the release, more were expected to follow, as the
Commission processes late requests and confirmed it had received
notifications from four additional countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, Malta
and Slovenia).
