To Subscribe to the Non-GMO Report call
1-800-854-0586 or
visit http://www.non-gmoreport.com/

The annual report by pro-GM group ISAAA (International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications) notes a 10% gain in genetically modified crop acreage from 2009 to 2010, yet that amounts to just 3% of global agricultural land.

The report on the status of GM crops worldwide shows a total area of 148 million hectares. Seventy percent of the increase in 2010 is accounted for by expansion in three countries already committed to GM crops – US, Brazil, and Argentina.

In order of hectares, they include: US (66.8 million), Brazil (25.4 million), Argentina (22.9 million), India (9.4 million), Canada (8.8 million), China (3.5 million), Paraguay (2.6 million), Pakistan (2.4 million), South Africa (2.2 million) and Uruguay (1.1 million).

In five countries, the area under GM crops fell last year – China, Spain, Portugal, Romania and the Czech Republic. Spain’s reduction of 10.9% in 2010 in GM cropping is part of an overall decline in EU of 23% in the last two years.

“These data are hardly earth shattering and show that the vast majority of the food grown to directly feed people is not GM,” said Pete Riley of GM Freeze. “GM soy and corn are wastefully used to feed livestock and poultry in intensive units and for bio-ethanol and bio-diesel production. Opposition to GM crops remains strong across the world  Common sense says that this makes no sense in a world where millions are starving or undernourished.”