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Europe isn't concerned in the least about any health dangers of GMOs. They banned them (partially) because:

-Many varieties are  known to expand agressively, and can cause <pollution> (cross-polination) with local varieties.

-GMOs are very productive, which could incite local farmers to take them instead of any varieties typical to a certain region: The EU likes to protect certain food productions as cultral heritage. Also, they want to discourage massif monocultures, as to protect the landscape.

-Certain GMO varieties were created to specifically used with a poison which they are immune to. These are usually harmless, if used correctly, but malinformed farmers tend to use them in extravagant quantaties, which can have negative effects (more on the environnement than on humans, however.) Also, if a single substance is used too frequently, it can let superweeds evolve, which are hard to get rid of.

In fact, the importation of GMO products is fully legal. Immense quantaties of <banned> soy come into the continent from South America, mostly to feed cattle. B



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