Quote Originally Posted by piwanoi
What I should have wrote is GM food is now being grown world wide on a bigger land mass than the USA , here all the stats
The OP has a good title...Why is it wrong?

You have been misled by the wording piwanoi, allow me to explain.

A record 170.3 million hectares of biotech crops were grown globally in 2012
That's ~ 656,373 sq miles or approx 17.3% of the land mass of the USA (~3.79million sq miles).

In the period 1996 to 2012, millions of farmers in ~30 countries worldwide, adopted biotech crops at unprecedented rates. The most compelling and credible testimony to biotech crops is that during the 17 year period 1996 to 2012, millions of farmers in ~30 countries worldwide, elected to make more than 100 million independent decisions to plant and replant an accumulated hectarage of more than 1.5 billion hectares – an area 50% larger than the total land mass of the US or China – there is one principal and overwhelming reason that underpins the trust and confidence of risk-averse farmers in biotechnology – biotech crops deliver substantial, and sustainable, socio-economic and environmental benefits. The 2011 study conducted in Europe confirmed that biotech crops are safe.
Spot the deliberate mislead yet?

Okay I'll give you a clue....accumulated hectares from 1996 to 2012.

Incidentally, that paragraph alone should be enough to ward off all but the indocible.

Now go away and read Frankenstein. You may learn more than you think.