>GMO: Label it, or ban it.
INGREDIENTS:
Soylent Green is people.
jm
On 25 Apr 2001, at 7:01, Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> Last night NOVA/FRONTLINE aired a two hour special "harvest of
> Horror" a program about biotech food.
>
> I thought both sides were very well represented, I was a little
> surprised at Jeremy Rifkin in particular, he left his well known
> theatrics at home, and I thought he presented his arguments well.
>
> The ELF came off as the mind-welded-bomb-throwers they essentially
> are.
>
> The program presented an excellent overview of both the
> technologies and the issues.
>
> It all came down to a familiar issue, labeling. The pro-biotechers
> were unanimously opposed to any kind of labeling. The interesting
> part was the study of the focal groups. While they expressed a wide
> variety of opinions on the subject, they were unanimous about
> labeling. In fact opposition to biotech dropped almost completely
> after the idea of labeling was introduced.
>
> It is clearly a pro-choice issue.
>
> GMO: Label it, or ban it.
>
> GMO: Label it, or ban it.
>
> GMO: Label it, or ban it.
>
>
>
> Brian
>
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>
John Marlow
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