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In this week's cover story, Time magazine notes that "at least a million children who die every year because they are weakened by vitamin-A deficiency and an additional 350,000 who go blind" could be saved by genetically improved "Golden Rice." Who could be against this life-saving technology? At a recent press conference, Peter Hoffman, incoming chair of Chefs Collaborative, a group of celebrity chefs pushing organic food, argued that there was no use for "Golden Rice."

A majority of Canadians (61 percent) tell government pollsters they welcome genetic improvements in food, saying the potential benefits are so great as to outweigh any theoretical downside.

In a recent press release, the eco-terrorists from the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed “two years of genetic experiments were destroyed” by its members in an attack on the Cold…

Restaurant operators wondering why a few customers are starting to express fear about genetically improved foods need look no further than Greenpeace's web-based "action kit" against restaurants, supermarkets and schools. Pre-written guest letters to chefs, endorsed by the increasingly militant Chef Collaborative 2000, annihilate the science and push high-priced organic marketers.

The Genetically Engineered Food Alert Coalition has pledged to spend "one million dollars or more" to try to stampede Americans into fearing genetically improved foods. A coalition spokesman claimed, "This is going to be the first sustained effort on the European model," a reference to nanny activists' successful efforts to shock European consumers into fearing state-of-the-art food technologies. We note that this week the European Commission called for multi-national reversal of the nanny-inspired anti-biotech food restrictions already in place.

If there were any doubts of a link between Fenton Communications (the people that brought you the thoroughly debunked Alar apple scare) and the newly announced Genetically Engineered…

Fenton Communications, the force behind the thoroughly debunked Alar apple scare, is now whipping up fear over genetically improved foods at the behest of the organic food industry. Twenty-two…

The Auckland (NZ) Sunday Star-Times reports that the United Nations and the World Health Organization have issued yet another in a growing list of reports that finds genetically improved food…

The European Commission (EC) has announced plans to force member states to lift their nanny-inspired bans on genetically modified food. EC Food Commissioner David Byre insisted, "There is no scientific evidence of problems related to GM foods."

Despite nanny claims that kids eat too much junk food, guzzle too many sodas, eat too many burgers, will get cancer from pesticides on their veggies and dioxin in their food, or will be poisoned by aspartame, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics finds that American children are healthier, better fed, and more likely to reach adulthood than ever before.