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What happened was that the Europeans don't want big agribusiness to control their own food and when Monsanto first introduced GMO foods into Europe they thought that Monsanto was trying to take over their food supply and you know the Europeans are as interested in food security as the rest of us.  But Greenpeace had an awakening.  They realized here was the way to be against GM foods.  Now, originally maybe they had some good ideas.  Originally, their original position was well GM foods may be dangerous (MAY BE).  Usually if you listen to them they need to test them, they need to test them.  Make sure that they're okay.  Well, all those tests have been done, but Greenpeace is still not satisfied with that.  Why?  Because this is the best fundraising campaign that Greenpeace has ever had.  Do you know the annual budget of Greenpeace?  I'm sure you don't, I don't.  But the people who estimate these things, you know Greenpeace doesn't make that publicly available, but people who estimate it, estimate it to be about 500 million Euros a year.  This is a not-for-profit organization and where did all of this money start pouring in from?  It started pouring in as soon as they started their campaign.  Now of course you could have said well we don't like Monsanto, so we just ban Monsanto.  Well that won't work.  And why won't it work?  Because farmers buy their seeds through Monsanto and they can't afford not to.