Essay On Green Protectionism

Introduction Protectionism is the economic policy of restraining trade between states(countries) through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas, and a variety of other government regulation, often done with the intent of protecting local businesses and jobs from foreign competition.

Green protectionism is a new tool adopted by various countries for practicing protectionism. Countries use the ecological grounds to block the imports it receives for the protectionist purposes. Otherwise the protectionist policy wouldn’t be easily allowed in international trade relations. The countries now try and shout the claims of radical environment NGOs so that their protectionist policy can become successful. In this way they achieve

FOOD PRODUCTS FROM GMO SEEDS

Genetically modified seeds are produced when a strain of DNA one seed is introduced in another to give desirable feature to that seed like making it disease resistant or highly reproductive etc.

The GMOs have been banned because they pose serious threat to environment. This genetic engineering tends to disturb the sequence of any food’s genetic code and can in many cases be toxic or change the nutritional value of the food. The Bt toxin used in GMO corn, for example, was recently detected in the blood of pregnant women and their babies, with possibly harmful consequences.

Also, if the GMO seed will be there it will surely pollinate and breed with natural plants and poses threat for genetic contamination. Reports have proven that Bt cotton has contaminated varieties of corn.

Along with it, GMO seeds being very scientific and expensive in nature tends to concentrate power in hands of biotech corporations.

But these are very minimum disadvantages in comparison to the advantages it gives. The European Union has used this to it benefit. Various NGOs have used methods so to raise questions regarding the safety of the GMO seeds. Gmo hit hard the European agricultural sector which led to agribusiness