MISLEADING propaganda about biotechnology from green organisations in Europe
is obstructing Africa’s attempts to combat hunger, claims a Kenyan academic.
“We don’t get data, we get opinions,” says Margaret Karembu of the Department
of Environmental Sciences at Kenyatta University in Nairobi. She delivered a
scathing attack on the greens at a conference in London last week.
Greenpeace responded by saying biotech companies are as guilty as any green
group of spreading value-laden propaganda. It says it opposes the release of any
genetically modified organisms anywhere in the world, whatever the benefits.
But Karembu says green propaganda has so alarmed some…
