This is called have your say. I live in the EU but i never had a say about GM crops...........

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Europe set to lift ban on GM crops

Right and wrong, good and bad are obviously lost discretions of European society after this decision...

Marijonas Vilkelis, Lismore, NSW, Australia

As someone who cares for the environment I'm looking forward to the introduction of GM crops: fewer chemical sprayings and less run off into water systems.

Nick, SOUTHAMPTON,

The company behind all this is "Monsanto" since the ban in the EU they have continually sent lobyists from the states to The European Food Safety Authority to apply pressure to the back pockets of the top appointed brass, who are supposedly independant on all views of GM crops, but take a look at the British appointee who has ties to research companies who are pro GM. At The same time we have the American Monsanto controlled Goverment threatening action against the EU. Official American documents if researched on the net will show that all departments that matter in goverment have one or more "EX" Monsanto employees working inside them, now i don't want to point out the obvious on this, but it sure does look like a industrial coup d'état takeover of the American Goverment, One final note Monsanto are the nice people who bring us the sweet poison Aspertame, which i suggest you research on Google, this will open your mind to the kind of people who are forcing GM Foods on us.

Brian, chester,

You let them WIN they will. Refuse to buy any GM. Do not accept the fact that the approval of the European Commission on Gm products will mean an acceptance of the products by the consumer. A chemical company producing potatoes albeit for paper making (for the moment) is frightening enough and personally I prefer my cows to eat grass and not GM modified products!

Sue, foresto, Italy

I am ashamed for them. They are playing with a technology they do not understand. There will be unintended consequences. This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a wimper.

elliot467, Branstedt,

Documentation and studies and even the death of some that no one can ever prove will not stop the pursuit of profit. Do not forget that through out history we did not do much to further our enlightenment unless is was to further our power over our fellow man. I don't think Mother Nature will give us the answers to what will happen when we play creator easily. May we learn from Mother Nature and all just get along!

MIchael, Cleveland, USA

Well thank goodness for that! At last our 'democratic system' is going to give us Plato would have regarded as the only sensible course of action on offer. The approval of improved varieties of crops which will deliver the benefits that farmers and their advisers have been striving for years to utilise.
Why we have spent so much time bowing to the demands of the thousands of people who is the main do not even have an 'A' level in biology (HRH Prince of Wales) is beyond me but maybe I have become a grumpy old man.
I don't expect to be consulted on the advisability of a new medicine or mobile phone technology but equally wonder why small ill educated parties expect to be asked about subjects of which they know very little.
Roll on the new technology I say.

Jonathon Harrington, Brecon, Wales

They won't give up, will they? Even though there is now plenty of evidence to show the potential hazards of these products, the juggernaut rumbles on. Another good reason for a referendum on continued membership of the EU.

Nicholas Lee, Windsor, UK

Very sad.....there is no basis for GM crops.....they still need heavy pesticides at an unknown cost......Big Business wins again!

Vince, Perth, Australia

There goes the end of a wholesome food supply. 5 fruit and veg?...Try NO fruit and veg.

judy, Liverpool, england

Will they never learn not to trust the data suppied to them by vested interests?
GM crops are not the long-term answer they profess to be.
They are a means to gain control over the world's food supply.
Already there are loud voices reporting serious problems but the politicians are no longer representing the voice of the people. There are none so blind as those who refuse to see and none so deaf as those who refuse to hear.
The polluter must pay - if the GM companies can afford the bill.

Richard Bruce, Yarmouth, UK

Scientists around the world (including European sciencties)agree on the safety of these crops. Now it is time for the Europeans to decide if science or myth will dictate their public policy.

Rob Wager, Nanaimo , Canada

Corporate abuse on most levels has gone too far. The people of this planet must remember that it belongs to all of us. We are here to look after it and guard it from abuse. We the people must take this Earth back from the Corporations. We have no choice!

Ian deMontfort, London, UK

GM food and animals will poison this Planet and that goes along with the depopulation plan of the United Nations, like poisoning the water, the chemtrails being sprayed on us every day and the chemicals dumped on land and sea that is now seeping out of their cannisters and poisoning the seas. These Government people, scientists and Miltary are complete psychopaths and will use all means possible to control us through our basic needs like water and food even if it means destroying the Planet.

Arthur Guy, Gloucester, Gloucestershire

When will they understand that the public does not want to eat GMOs.

However, I see the day when we will have no alternative (organic) as GMOs multinationals such as Monsanto will have taken over the world's food supply. Why? Because we, the people, let them.

Do you really want drug companies controlling the world's food supply. Just say NO to GMOs and buy organic. Let them know with your cash just how you feel.

M. Davis, Montreal, Canada

I have no problem with people growing GM crops as long as they will compensate non GM farmers for any contamination and that the foods they are in are marked as GM foods. This will allow the big companies to get their own way as usual but give the consumer a choice. If the consumer decides to not purchase GM foods then this will simply be a decision that the food companies and retailers will respect.

I have heard no mention of any plans to label GM foods and/or animals fed on GM crops.

Joseph Kellie, Edinburgh, Scotland

Africa's poor thank you. Nothing else would alleviate poverty as well as access to the European agricultural market. From what I understand, restrictions on GM crops are the main barrier.

Give all the support you want to Bono, Geldorf and the other celebrity supplicants. Compared to grassroots economic activity, it's just symbolism. What's more, government aid tends to go to governments first and often that's where it stops. Agricultural trade dollars go to the middle-class first & trickles down (and up) from there.

Come on EU. Follow up with free trade of farm goods with Africa.

Peter Enns, nanaimo, BC, Canada

I truly hate this. This will open many cans of worms in the future. Think of new diseases etc. Why are they doing this? Simply just because they can. Criminals.

Silvia, Rotterdam, Netherlands