Indians have overwhelmingly voted against GM food in an online survey conducted by Greenpeace India. "Ninety seven percent of those who voted felt that GM crops was not the answer for food security," the green advocacy group said in  a report it submitted to the agriculture ministry on Monday.

Greenpeace India also blamed agriculture minister Sharad Pawar for hardselling GM crops. “Given the controversial nature of the technology and the lack of regulatory structure in the country to assess this technology, India should be taking a precautionary approach to GM crops,” said Neha Saigal, campaigner, sustainable agriculture, Greenpeace India.

Saigal added, “Instead, the minister for agriculture is promoting GM crops under the fallacious argument that it is needed to feed the starving billions in this country.”

More than 300 independent analysts posted their views on the adverse impact of the GM crops/food in a survey released last month by the Coalition for GM Free India.

Read the Greenpeace report

Link to coalition compilation of scientific papers.