Word: acsr
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This year, Tolchin said, genetically modified foods were for the first time a major issue. "All of a sudden bio-engineered foodstuff was a serious issue and the [ACSR] was split on it," he said...
While the CCSR may abstain on less clear-cut issues, the ACSR often is forced to tackle issues that are garnering increased attention on the world stage...
...ACSR's debate on the measures, which involved Coca-Cola, Kellogg, Safeway, PepsiCo, Quaker Oats and McDonald's among others, centered on the question of the lack of evidence about the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). "Everybody agreed there was little information on the safety or danger of these products. People interpreted this fact differently," Tolchin said...
Ultimately, the ACSR approved the proposals by margins that varied from one vote to six for the different companies. The CCSR, however, abstained on all of the proposals, "in anticipation of further ACSR discussion of this new and controversial issue," according to the report...
...part of an ongoing decade-long debate, the committees voted on proposals to force corporations to adopt an environmental code of conduct, the Ceres principles. The ten points on the environment have been discussed by the committees since 1990, when the ACSR recommended abstention...