According to market research firm HealthFocus, 87 percent of consumers in industry- and emerging countries assume that food without genetically engineered organisms is healthier. 55 percent of those consider genetically modified plants to be damaging for the environment.
In Europe, 90 percent of the people questioned have health concerns, in the USA, Canada, Brazil and Mexico 88 percent. In the Asian Area, including Australia, it is 83 percent on average. For the survey, according to the specialist medium FoodNavigator-USA, HealthFocus has questioned 2,300 consumers from the United States as well as 500 to a 1,000 from Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, Spain, Japan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines as well as other countries.
Genetically modified plants are almost always resistant to weed killers, with which they are systematically sprinkled. Or they produce their own toxin to kill insects. Except for transgenic corn in Spain, hardly any genetically engineered plants are grown in the EU. However, large quantities of genetically engineered soy and corn are exported overseas, which are fed to animals in conventional fattening systems.
