While most of the world’s left-leaning nonprofits are wringing their collective hands over the supposed dangers inherent in genetically improved foods, their counterparts in the Great White North are expending energy where it really counts: beer. Greenpeace (whose ridiculous Chicken Little rhetoric has put it on the fringes of serious scientific debate) has teamed up with the Council of Canadians, the largest “progressive” advocacy group North of the border, to declare that transgenic food ingredients are unsafe. Even in the unofficial national beverage.
