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Subject: Bottom line: Do as we say
Does it bother anyone else that the US resorts to bullying and threats when others disagree and is hell bent on making our choices for us, regardless of increasing opposition?
US trade representative, Charlene Barshefsky, told EU leaders to expect punitive action through the World Trade Organisation if they allow domestic concerns over biotechnology to interfere with US trade. Most of the people sitting on supposedly independent government advisory bodies have direct links to biotech companies.
When she was asked whether she felt that people should be given the choice of whether they eat GM food or not, Janet Bainbridge, chair of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes, replied that we should not because "most people don't even know what a gene is." She added: "Sometimes my young son wants to cross the road when it's dangerous. Sometimes you just have to tell people what's best for them."
http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_1860.cfmA BuzzFlash Reader
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