Europe was told that it had no choice but to accept agbiotech, yet
this imperative was turned into a test of democratic accountability
for societal choices. Since the late 1990s, European public
controversy has kept the agri-biotech industry and its promoters on
the defensive. As some opponents and regulators alike have
declared, 'GM food/crops are on trial'. Suspicion of their guilt
has been evoked by moral symbols, as disputes over whether
genetically-modified products are modest benign improvements on
traditional plant breeding, or dangerous Frankenfoods; and in
disputes over whether they are global saviours, or control agents
of multinational companies. This book examines European
institutions being 'put on trial' for how their regulatory
procedures evaluate and regulate GM products, in ways which opened
up alternative futures. Levidow and Carr highlight how public
controversy created a legitimacy crisis, leading to national policy
changes and demands, in turn stimulating changes in EU agbiotech
regulations as a strategy to regain legitimacy.
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