Awareness of GM food proliferation in Saudi Arabia: A case study of Makkah city

Abstract

This paper studies GM foods domination of Saudi consumer markets. Questionnaires were developed and distributed among participants in Makkah city. The data were used to conduct several regressions. The results indicate that the majority of participants have no knowledge of GM foods and are oblivious to whether they consume it or not and as such demanded labelling and proper monitoring its existence in the market. Furthermore, participants knowledge created more disagreement with consumptions of GM foods and they required labelling and proper monitoring.