GM foods: advance or decline of food safety?

Some firms have presented the new technologies of genetic manipulation as o n occasion fo humanity to put an end to malnutrition, This was to be obtain ed thanks to the development of agricultural production which they were sup posed to lead. The current controversy is not the sign of archaic oppositions to progress; on the contrary, it offers one more occasion to remind one of certain unav oidable realities concerning agricultural policy, First, the priority remai ns for each country for themselves both on quality and quantity levels with out expecting the solution from imported products from more competitive cou ntries. Secondly, the farmers can't use new techniques except in a favorable contex t both economic and political. Lastly, humanity's genetic patrimony has been a collective one up to now; f or it to be privatised would be a dangerous move.