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In an attempt to cut down on unnecessary government red tape, Britain is about to scrap rules forcing restaurants to label genetically improved ingredients on their menus. ("GM labels 'off the menu,'" Daily Mail, 8/16/00)

As the Democrats gather to nominate Al Gore, the Looney Toons are coming out of the woodwork to protest everything from corporate domination to food irradiation and genetically improved…

John Meredith, a member of the African-American leadership network Project 21 of the National Center for Public Policy Research (a nonpartisan think-tank), says genetically improved foods can end hunger in…

When Peter Hoffman, incoming chair of Chefs Collaborative, a group of celebrity chefs pushing organic food, recently said, "'The Green Revolution' was a dismal failure. We don't need it now, we didn't need it then," he was not alone in his dismissal of lifesaving advances in food technology. Hoffman is just part of a larger campaign that wants to restrict food choices, even if it means increased death and disease.

By now you may have heard that the anti-everything radicals at Greenpeace have a new leader in John Passacantando. What most people don't know is that A, href="http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/library/politics/080700lives-greenpeace.html">Passacantando's wife is Lisa Guide, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy for the Interior Department. How convenient.

Anti-biotechnology eco-terrorists are drawing inspiration from anarchist thinkers like John Zerzan who believes society should return to the Stone Age. Not only is Zerzan against agribusiness, Zerzan says, “The question…

Novartis is convinced that when faced with lunatics arguing the superiority of their flawed ideals, appeasement is the answer. Much like Chamberlain tried to deal with the Third Reich by giving away the Sudetenland, Novartis is caving in to Greenpeace's demands to stop producing food containing genetically improved ingredients.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's attack on milk is picked up this month by Discover magazine. How these anti-dairy, anti-meat zealots continue to get press is amazing considering the fact that they've been denounced by the American Medical Association (AMA), the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), and the National Council for Reliable Health Information, and other reliable health and nutrition groups.

Portland Press Herald editorial writer M.D. Harmon provides perspective on those protesting genetically improved food: "It has been said that the story of civilization is a record of the slow triumph of those who want to build something over those who want merely to conquer and destroy. The attempt to improve our foodstuffs and other useful plants is a civilization-building effort, and the destructive activities of machete-wielding vandals is uncivilized in the extreme."

Greenpeace's lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding that the agency remove genetically improved crops has been dismissed by a federal court. The court found no scientific support for Greenpeace's argument (after a thorough rebuttal by the EPA) that "genetically engineered crops are a threat to farmers, consumers, and the environment."