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- Title
Rethinking US leadership in food biotechnology.
- Authors
Taylor, Michael R.
- Abstract
The U.S. administration announced in May 2003 that it would challenge the European de facto moratorium on approval of genetically modified (GM) food crops in the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. This follows several years of campaigning by the U.S. government and industry to gain acceptance in Europe of GM crops and foods that the U.S. citizens consider, with good reason, to be safe. But the U. S. cannot successfully litigate its way to public acceptance of biotechnology. The stakes in this debate are high. Biotechnology is helping U.S. farmers grow corn, cotton and soybeans more efficiently and in some cases with less use of toxic insecticides, but the worldwide pattern of controversy, resistance and polarization surrounding biotechnology threatens its future adoption for food purposes, in the U.S. and elsewhere.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FOOD biotechnology; GENETICALLY modified foods; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2003, Vol 21, Issue 8, p852
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt0803-852