Effect on Trade Worldwide
Genetically altered foods have caused a broad range of skepticism over imports and exports of genetically modified agricultural commodities. As the controversy and arguments of the situation grow, the more countries begin to question GMO use in their food supply and in the food supply for trade. Many countries, such as the United Kingdom, want to limit the amount of genetically modified foods they put on the market and limit the amount of these products that their people consume. Many other countries, such as the third-world countries, have accepted GMOs as the solution to their seemingly never ending hunger problem. Although it is still a troubling dispute in World Trade Organization, the primary goal for developing countries is to balance their use of GMOs for economy and their use of GMOs for improving the quality and quantity of foods. Overall, the rapid and continually advancing evolution that led up to the creation of bio-engineering and genetically altered organisms will lead to even more challenges for the world to address unless we set standards for trade that meet the needs of all countries.