21. Skewes noted there already has been some consumer resistance to buying chicken treated with radiation to kill bacteria. 22. The crops are popular with farmers, but seed companies that developed the technology are struggling to overcome consumer resistance in Europe and Asia. 23. The StarLink corn has become an embarrassment to the biotech industry and food manufacturers, who have been fighting consumer resistance in Europe and Japan to genetically engineered crops. 24. The work comes as farmers in industrialized countries, reacting to consumer resistance, are cutting back on acreage sown with genetically engineered crops. 25. There has been strong consumer resistance to agricultural biotechnology in Europe and Japan, but most U.S.-grown corn and soy is used domestically. 26. There is some consumer resistance. 27. With that consumer resistance -- and without a significant price difference for plastic -- wineries have little incentive to make the switch, she said. |
|