In response to “GM approval process in EU requires modernization,” (Opinion, Aug. 12), it can be understood there are many issues influencing trade and market access, which are independent of the commodities in question.
It is less understandable how any nation thinks it has authority to determine another nation’s commodity quality or tolerance acceptance standards.
“The customer is always right” is one of free enterprise’s pillar principles. Nations who do not want GMOs should have that right.
If Canadian producers wish to supply non-GMO nations, their production and logistics must comply with the customer’s standards.
GM demand is created by the push of industry players, not from the pull of grassroots consumers. It is too bad that one food-producing continent couldn’t have been left GM free to act as a control group in the global GM experiment.
Garrett Osborn,
Big Beaver, Sask.
