Probit regression: Potatoes

Resistance to GM-technology exists in the U.S. and other developed countries. Anti-biotechnology groups have been vocal opponents of agricultural biotechnology, creating websites, holding protests, issuing press releases, and burning down field trials of new genetically modified crops. One argument they make is that “customers must have the right to know” what foods are genetically modified (Greenpeace, 1997). In the European Union, a moratorium has been placed on the release of new GM products, largely due the vocal and more powerful biotech antagonists (Hoban, 1998). WTO court cases will undoubtedly decide the extent of the EU’s power to limit imports of GM-food products.