A GOOD clean fight it is not. In the battle over genetically modified foods,
both contestants have been hitting way below the belt.
In the green corner, environmental groups are lined up with those protesting
against the power of multinational companies. They’ve been punching wildly,
using extravagant speculations based on tenuous research to convince us that all
GM foods are dangerous to health and environment.
In the other green corner—the money corner—stand companies
pushing their modified crops. They countered that genetic engineering will end
global food shortages. But while the companies’ crops are good for profits,
they’ve offered…
