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GM Mustard: India gearing up to be biggest dustbin for risky, harmful tech

Even European Union continues to stand firmly against GM crops

GM Mustard: Making a way for other GM crops?
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Devinder Sharma
The news has still not sunk in. The nation has still not been able to understand the serious ramifications of allowing commercial cultivation of GM (genetically modified) food crops. The regulatory approval granted to GM Mustard is actually aimed at opening the flood gates for GM foods. India is, in reality, is getting ready to be the world’s biggest dustbin for a risky, unwanted and harmful technology. 

As European Union continues to stand firmly against GM crops, so much so that after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s firm opposition, the incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron has now made it abundantly clear

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