ABSTRACT
Perhaps no other issue has more sharply exposed the differences between U.S. and European approaches to science and its techno social deployments than that of GM crops and foods. The ramifica tions of this transatlantic dispute are thoroughly global, as reflected in the accusation leveled at the EU by U.S. President Bush in summer 2004, that EU opposition to GM was causing global starvation thanks to the refusal of U.S. GM food aid by developing countries such as Zambia, following Europe’s stance. U.S. anxiety about winning the WTO dispute launched against the EU in May 2004 for its alleged six-year moratorium against GM crops and foods further reflects its concerns to signal the validity of its chosen scientific-technological trajectory for global agriculture to those world markets, than about European markets alone.
