Protesters have taken to the streets, complaining that although three quarters of the population have rejected genetically-modified food, the government consistently supports genetic engineering, supports the biotech companies and doesn't take action on their behalf.
In spite of the scientific consensus that the new techniques of genetic engineering are essentially extensions, or refinements, of conventional (but less precise and less predictable) techniques of genetic modification, both U.N. entities have established requirements for the products of genetic engineering (whether plants or food derived from them) that no conventionally modified product could meet.