Fwd: [Food-news] Genetic Engineering as Final conquest

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> [Food-news] Genetic Engineering as Final

> conquest

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> Editor's Note: *While the UN Convention on

> Biodiversity (CBD) talks

> continue in Brazil this week where issues including

> GM labeling and the

> future of " terminator technology " are debated, this

> article from World

> Watch Magazine illuminates why we should be deeply

> interested in the

> outcomes of these meetings. Claire Hope Cummings

> explores how the

> biotech industries exercise tremendous power in the

> nature of US public

> policy (or the lack of it) as regards GMOs. Biotech

> companies are

> virtually unaccountable to the public with no

> liability laws, no

> monitoring of field practices, no post-market

> studies, and bear no

> responsibility for contamination but (while afforded

> rights based on

> patent infringement). And yet their experiments are

> rapidly spreading

> through our collective environments and food chains.

> The power of the

> biotech industry has hushed criticism and some very

> alarming findings.

> GE technology for food, argues this author, has no

> imperative. What it

> yields are patents, profits and social control in

> exchange for untold

> risk. We invite reader's comments on this subject.

>

>

<http://www.worldwatch.org/ct/20060223/pubs/mag/2005/181/>

>

> Also attached a pdf file.

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