ABSTRACT
The role that international concerns, beliefs, and cultures have played in raising the political profile of genetically modified food export, distribution, and consumption pervades to some degree every section of this
Casebook,
and cannot simply be broken out of its broad context. But this section will address some formal actions that are noteworthy. In general, the complexity of issues related to the production, distribution, and sale of genetically modified foods are a rare example of a situation that the U.S. finds itself unable to control, despite its overwhelming influence on world politics generally and its enormous economic power. It is also unusual for the U.S. to be favoring reduced regulation rather than, as the
Environmental Politics: Interest Groups, the Media, and the Making of Policy
documents, having its generally more stringent levels of regulation eroded by the WTO and other international bodies.
