An overview of more consumer polls on attitudes to GMOs can be found on the GMO Compass website: Opposition decreasing or acceptance increasing?
From the Eurobarometer study, climate change is the issue Europeans are most worried about and this concern is increasing (47% in 2004 to 57% in 2008). Water and air pollution are the next biggest concerns. Click here to find out how GMOs can help address these issues… Opinion polls of farmers across Europe show that they want to make their own decisions about growing GM crops. In 2008, in Italy, a survey of maize farmers in Lombardy, the country’s main maize growing area, showed that 67% said they would plant GM maize if allowed to. In the United Kingdom, a poll of farmers who grew GM crops as part of test trials showed that 95% would grow them if allowed to do so; of 24,000 farmers polled overall in the UK in 2008, almost half were in favour while only 15% opposed GM. In Poland, 85% of farmers agreed they should have the option of planting approved GM crops. In Spain, of 350 maize farmers asked, 83% felt farmers should have the option to plant. In countries such as France and Hunga
