GM FOOD EVERYWHERE
January 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has warned that no food can now be completely free of genetically modified organisms, claiming a moral absolutist stance in setting acceptable close-to-zero thresholds for levels of GMOs in organic and conventional products is unrealistic. Instead, sensible advice from scientists should be taken. "We have been banished from paradise," he told an organic farming conference.
EUROPEAN Union (EU) agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler has warned that no food can now be completely free of genetically modified organisms, claiming a moral absolutist stance in setting acceptable close-to-zero thresholds for levels of GMOs in organic and conventional products is unrealistic. Instead, sensible advice from scientists should be taken. "We have been banished from paradise," he told an organic farming conference.
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