said grow modified food countries decision welcomed by On February 7, 2006, the United States won a trade dispute when the WTO decided that the European Union violated international rules ( ) restricting imports of genetically modified crops and ( ) made from them. The ( ) is a victory for the agricultural biotechnology industry, which for years has been fighting opposition to its products from consumers and governments in Europe and some other ( ) . Genetically ( ) crops are widely grown and consumed in the United States but rarely in Europe. American biotechnology, food and agriculture groups ( ) the decision, but consumer and environmental groups criticized it. “The World Trade Organization is unfit to decide what we should eat or what farmers should ( ) ,” Alexandra Wandel from Friends of the Earth Europe ( ) in a statement.