Source: Stephen Beard, NPR MARKETPLACE, 5/3/21


For more than two decades, much of Europe has resisted the genetic modification of crops. This has had negative economic consequences for the United States, which has a global lead in this technology. Rejection of so-called Frankenfoods across the European Union has denied American agribusiness and biotechnology firms billions in potential export revenues and has strained trans-Atlantic trade relations. But that could be about to change, due to COVID-19.  

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