May 13 - Bush administration undercuts democracy by challenging European moratorium on genetically modified organisms

Note: The Bush administration today announced it will formally challenge Europe’s moratorium on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) at the World Trade Organization (WTO).

"This case will become Exhibit No. 1 in the growing worldwide attack on the WTO’s legitimacy. The fundamental issue here is democracy: The people eating the food or living in the environment that could be affected must decide domestic policy, not some secretive WTO tribunal of three trade experts," Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch said today.

To read the entire statement, click here.

For more information on the U.S. challenge to the EU's policy on GMOs, click here.

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