Group: Biotechs Don't Deliver on Promises

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=753&e=2&u=/ap/20050203/ap_on_sc/biotech_crops

SAN FRANCISCO - The biotechnology industry has failed to deliver on promises to revolutionize agriculture with plants genetically engineered to be healthier, drought resistant and tastier, a consumer interest group said Wednesday.



The Washington D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest reached the conclusion after analyzing publicly available data provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (news - web sites) and the Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites).


"Despite glowing pronouncements from the agricultural biotechnology industry, the regulatory data suggests that the industry is stagnating, not thriving," report author Greg Jaffe said.


The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, a nonprofit supporter of biotechnology, released a separate report last month showing that 8 million farmers in 17 countries grew engineered crops on 200 million acres last year. That represented a 20 percent increase in acreage from 2003.

[xchrom]

1. they do deliver plants that threaten

the balance of nature though.

[leftchick]

2. exactly

:(

[SpiralHawk]

3. Twenty years from now

We will be reading about the weird birth defects caused by these genetically mutant products that have been rushed to market to make a profit.