I agree with Chris on this. There is no moral excuse for exporting to others what one won't consume on the domestic market. It incensed me years ago to read about bad baby formula shipped to S. America by US companies. There is no less evil example of the excesses of capitalism than this practice. Talk about creating bad images overseas.
Walk the talk, eat your own food. Either practice free (and fair) markets, or admit it's fixed. However, it will be increasingly difficult or impossible to distinguish between GM crops and others due to cross-pollination in the wind, as the story I posted mentioned, or the mixing of the two crops in the same grain silos before shipping to market. No wonder Farmer's Markets are thriving again. Karen Chris wrote: However, this doesn't justify the morality of certain African dictators in banning (safe-to-eat) GM foods when they are only being imported by the aid agencies to try and cope with massive starvation What about the "morality" of the aid agencies (or rather, GM corporations) to slip in GM food into food aid for 7 years, without informing the recipient countries, and often in breach of national regulations? Why is that sneakiness necessary if it's soo safe? Why not simply provide non-GM food, which is also on the market? (Let Americans eat "their" GM food themselves if they like it.) It seems they think they can get away with taking advantage of the misery by force-feeding Africans with food that "the market" doesn't want.
