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Australasian Biotechnology (backfiles)
AusBiotech
ISSN: 1036-7128
Vol. 10, No. 2, 2000, pp. 26
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Bioline Code: au00021
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Australasian Biotechnology (backfiles), Vol. 10, No. 2, 2000, pp. 26
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The GM Issue - GM FOOD: THE FACTS
David Tribe
Abstract
A vigorous campaign is being waged to raise suspicion and fear in the public mind and stop the use and experimental development of genetically modified crops. Unfortunately, the campaigning is a gross case of producing bad facts masquerading as science. As a scientist with 30 years of experience in genetics, it is particularly galling for me to see this misuse of biological science by people who display so little understanding of how DNA actually rearranges and recombines in nature. It is even more galling to discover, in a democratic country with a free press, that we see this one-sided information being fed to journalists and editorialists without any hard questions being asked. How can it be that GM technology has such bad press?
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