well, with Monsanto and other biotech giants in charge of US regulatory agencies, what else can we expect from the USDA?

U.S. evangelical push for GM foods
Sunday, 10 October 2010 16:53

BBC World Service – One Planet: The Father of Genetic Engineering….
First broadcast 10:32am, 7 Oct 2010
(ww.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/gd/episode/p00b2rgn/One_Planet_The_father_of_GM_foods_bolivian_seeds_and_wildebeest/)

GMWatch comment: This programme, part of the BBC World Service’s One Planet series on the environment, interviews genetic engineer Dr Roger Beachy. Beachy’s interview appears to be part of a new evangelical push on the part of the US government hyping GM crops as the solution to world hunger.

In the BBC interview, Beachy claims GM is being demonized but then proceeds to demonize organic production, as he has done before (even suggesting organic food may be dangerous to eat!)
(www.grist.org/article/usda-research-chief-concerned-about-safety-of-organic-food)

Beachy characterizes people who oppose GM crops as anti-science or just plain ignorant. He also uses straw man arguments, dismissing scientifically valid concerns about the uncontrollability of GM contamination with a story about a man who (according to Beachy) had an irrational concern about potatoes being contaminated by GM corn or cotton.

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http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/12558-us-evangelical-push-for-gm-foods

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