Friday, July 22, 2011

On Green Dread and Agricultural Technology - NYTimes.com

On Green Dread and Agricultural Technology - NYTimes.com

"Greenpeace would do well to start picking its shots more carefully."
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"...they summarize 25 years and more than $400 million of research by the countries most worried about impacts of this technology and find no basis for the Frankenfood fears of millions of people in Europe or elsewhere.
A line from the newer report summarizing both says much:
The main conclusion to be drawn from the efforts of more than 130 research projects, covering a period of more than 25 years of research, and involving more than 500 independent research groups, is that biotechnology, and in particular GMOs, are not per se more risky than… conventional plant breeding technologies."

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