Word: gm
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...GM could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it," he said...
...article in a top British medical journal, The Lancet, that links modified potatoes to intestinal problems in lab rats. Although the article is accompanied by an editor's note describing the findings as "preliminary" and cautions that they should not be used to make generalizations about genetically modified (GM) crops, they are being seized upon by the U.S. natural foods lobby. Charles Margulis, a Greenpeace spokesman, said the article lends "a certain scientific credibility" to the move to better regulate GM crops...
Genetic modification, which helps make crops impervious to insects and the elements, is a boom industry. Globally, sales of the technology rose from $75 million in 1995 to $1.5 billion in 1998. GM food is much more regulated in Europe, where the E.U., unlike the U.S., requires labels on products containing genetically modified produce. In all the current furor, however, the FDA on Monday announced a series of unusual public meetings to be held this fall in Chicago, Washington and Oakland to explain how it determines the safety of GM foods and to guage public opinion on food-safety policy...
...Jeffrey Kluger. "It can have a ripple effect all the way down the chromosome. It's a black box we don't know too much about." On the other hand, says senior science reporter David Bjerklie, the outcry exceeds the risks involved. "Of course, there are health risks with GM, and science should investigate them," he says. "But as much as this is a health issue, it is a psychological one.... You label something 'frankenfood' and all of the sudden everyone's scared of them." Bjerklie points out that "in nature there is also genetic drift," such as when birds...
...actions. Tension between the U.S. and the E.U. was already running high this summer after Europe decided to continue a ban on hormone-raised U.S. beef and the U.S. hit back with a 100% tariff on some E.U. food exports. Coming in the midst of such a catfight, the GM ban looks like vengeance as much as prudence. What's more, if Europe is so worried about GM foods, why is it growing them? France produces its own small crop of GM corn and uses more of the stuff than any other country in Europe...