At the same time, they do not contribute to true sustainable agriculture. Problems related to pollution and health remain. Since most countries in Europe exhibit agricultural overproduction, the search for solutions based on thorough economically and ecologically sustainable agriculture seems mandatory. Up to now, transgenic plants do not provide a tool for the transformation of European agriculture. Their concerns include matters related to aesthetic qualities of farming, i.e. diversity, landscape management and the notion of intrinsic values of both animals and plants.
Food quality is considered to consist of good products as well as good farming practices.
Nonetheless, approaches to include such categories have been undertaken. Biotechnological and agricultural methods are set in a relational context with these attitudes and may be accepted or rejected, accordingly. Such attempts have not resulted in final solutions to how genetic engineering should be used in food production, but nonetheless, they should belong to an open and public debate. Unorthodox views should not be discarded because of their novelty, but only on the basis of proven invalidity. As a consequence, the black and white picture drawn by promoters and opponents of transgenic crop plants could give way to a more detailed, graded one.