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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jurek" data-source="post: 3322224" data-attributes="member: 3357">You are very theoretical and not really in touch with the situation.Virtually all GMO varieties are developed for large scale industrialized agriculture. Small scale, low capital tropical agriculture in not an interesting market for biotech companies.Those caring for interests of those small scale tropical farmers find that their situation can be much easier improved by other methods, like access to capital or basic pesticides, not by developing GMOs for them.It is consumer choice on the overcrowded market for food in First World. Consumers don't like cat meat - so don't add cat meat into hamburgers, although it is pure superstition that cat meat is worse than beef and many Asians eat cats. Consumers want their GMO labelled - so label them. Consumers like dolphins - so don't sell dolphin meat and label dolphin-friendly tuna, although many dolphins are not endangered. Consumers want green products or fair trade products - so sell this food and enforce standards of it.</blockquote>