This was the subject of a BBC interview about a year ago...on NPR. Of course, the BBC sneered at the US biologist working on genetically altered corn they hoped to grow in Africa. (EU Luddites.) It was a two-fer, and this was before that embarrassing EU constitutional vote. The BBC slammed the US and trumpeted EU superiority at one go.
The US biologist interviewed was remarkably restrained although the BBC reporterette slammed his company and the US for (Gasp!) hoping to eventually make a modest profit on their research on both corn and rice.