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Greenpeace: Zero Tolerance For Biotech

“In the fictional world of James Bond, the criminal group SPECTRE made a big business out of misusing technology to disrupt commerce, make money, and turn nations against one another,”…
Posted June 26, 2002 at 12:00 am

Biotech Expert: Fears Are Unfounded

The Hoover Institute’s Henry I. Miller writes in Canada’s National Post: “Foes of agricultural biotechnology lambast it as unproven, untested, unnatural and uncontrollable, and worry that ‘rogue genes’…
Posted June 25, 2002 at 12:00 am

Greenpeace: Yes To Violence

Greenpeace is “the radical environmental group with a penchant for publicity,” Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research writes in a Contra Costa Times…
Posted June 24, 2002 at 12:00 am

World Food Summit: Yes To Biotech

“The World Food Summit has formally endorsed biotechnology as a way to address hunger,” Inter Press Service reports. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations declared…
Posted June 24, 2002 at 12:00 am

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Posted June 21, 2002 at 12:00 am

Activist In A Cage

Jose Bove is back in jail to complete his sentence for destroying a McDonald’s restaurant in France in 1999. (He later said he was “shocked that we…
Posted June 20, 2002 at 12:00 am

Anti-Biotech Activists: Starving For Attention

Anti-biotech activists showed their true colors in Scotland last week, when 70 protestors trampled a field of genetically improved crops. “The protest was billed as a fun demonstration…
Posted June 11, 2002 at 12:00 am

Biotech: Saving Lives Despite The Smears

Americans have spoken: Consumers trust genetically improved foods. A new Purdue University survey finds that, after being informed about the science behind biotech, nine out of ten consumers…
Posted June 10, 2002 at 12:00 am

Animal Rights and Anti-Biotech: A Dangerous Duo

Animal rights activists are joining up with anti-genetic improvement activists for a series of protests in Toronto, for the first time formally linking two anti-consumer movements that have sometimes resorted…
Posted May 28, 2002 at 12:00 am

Progress vs. Propaganda

Genetically improved foods are “even safer than conventional plants and foods,” the European Union has officially declared. Biotech products can save lives in developing nations, according to the…
Posted May 23, 2002 at 12:00 am