Governing against the grain? Part I Overseas perspectives on the UK Government's impending decision on the commercialisation of GM crops

Part I of this Article begins in the US, two or three decades ago when the science of genetic modification was still in its infancy. It charts the manner in which regulatory decision-making was handled, while noting the rapid spread of recent introductions of this technology in certain zones of the Americas. Whilst exposing the US public's changing view of these crops, alongside the regulatory agencies' responses, a handful of US and Canadian cases on different aspects of genetically modified organisms are considered as they provide good examples of the colliding interests of industry and civil society, with which the EU and the UK ultimately will have to grapple.