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...reality of genetically improved foods is far more benign. Whether you know it or not, so-called biotech foods have already been incorporated into the food we eat on a daily basis. Half of the U.S. soybean crop is already genetically altered, and a quarter of the corn planted has been engineered. These crops are used routinely by large companies that manufacture products served in Harvard's dining halls...
...this rash of new regulations? Ask the manufacturers of the products in question. "The genetically modified food industry recognizes that they need to have consumer confidence in order to push ahead," says TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. In addition, the stakes are high: Biotech crops already account for about one half of the nation's soybeans and cotton, one third of all corn, and smaller amounts of canola, potatoes and squash. And in the wake of recent consumer-driven decisions by McDonald's and Frito-Lay to stop accepting genetically modified potatoes, there's little doubt the American anti...
...Huxley. It certainly doesn't sit well with antiabortion activists--or, in many cases, with lawmakers. In 1996 Congress banned human-embryo research by federally supported scientists, forcing researchers like Pedersen to seek private funding (most of which has been provided by Geron, a Menlo Park, Calif., biotech company...
...despite predictions that the first human trials could begin in the next couple of years. Just don't expect to hear a lot about what's going on behind closed lab doors, if the current congressional ban continues and stem-cell research remains almost entirely in the hands of biotech companies. "That's actually the worst-case scenario because now the public has no input," says Larry Goldstein, a cell biologist at University of California at San Diego. "Companies have to be motivated by profit, so they aren't necessarily going to tell us what they're doing...
...part, Nader's not worried about handing the election to Bush. He's down on Gore: "He's plastic man. He used to be the man you went to on civil justice and biotech. Now he's just corporate power." Even though he's in competition with Buchanan, Nader says the racist rap against his opponent is unfair. Indeed, the icon of liberalism vows to reach out to conservatives. A Lebanese-American from small-town Connecticut, he rails like a Puritan. Childhood, he says, is being "corporatized by video games, junk food, undermining parental authority...Bill Bennett stuff...