France. What do you think of first? Great food! That’s my memory of touring France. Supreme, enticing, wonderful food. People who pay attention to what they eat. People who can even drink wine with their food because the food is so good the wine doesn’t hurt them.
French people know better than to eat GMO. So much so that they’ve successfully chased Monsanto’s GMO seeds away. This is what the power of consumers can do. Label GMOs. If they are labeled, their sales will dwindle and wither until Monsanto realizes that it is a chemical company, not an agriculture company. Monsanto appears to know this. That is why the aggressive push to prevent labeling.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/24/us-gmo-france-monsanto-idUSTRE80N1NI20120124
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A little misrepresentation of the situation here – this changes nothing about what is being eaten in France, this changes what is being grown – the French government have decided to make planting of MON810 illegal (illegally according to their own court system) – Europe will still be importing and utilizing MON810 corn, they just won’t be planting it in France.
Also – even if you take away GMO Monsanto would remain an agricultural company and not a chemical company – Monsanto Germplasm is highly competitive in all arenas, both in crops that are genetically modified and in those that are not (they’d likely make a lot less money, and farming would be set back over a decade, and actual chemical companies would be gleeful as herbicide sales moev away from MON and back to them)