Public perceptions about genetically modified (GM) food products is shifting from wariness to a more positive attitude as I discovered when compiling a survey for the Farming Independent over the past few months.
For the survey, I interviewed 100 parents of children under the age of 10 in the greater Dublin area on the topic of genetically modified milk, mimicking human breast milk, from dairy cows. All questions had the initial proviso of: ‘If this GM milk was proven safe by the EU’.
One of the more surprising findings was that 57% of parents said that this GM milk should be allowed into Europe. Even more surprising was that 38% of Irish parents said that they would feed this GM milk to their child. In addition, 63% felt there would be a market for this milk in Ireland.
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