BIOTECH COMMUNICATION - A NORTH AMERICAN UPDATE

I am drafting this article at the Seattle airport while I wait for my flight to San Francisco and the connection to Sydney. My plane has a one-and-a-half hour delay - it is two days before Thanksgiving and the airport is frantic. According to the news report, there will be an estimated 7.3 million people travelling via air, train or bus over the next few days, and 31.6 million driving vehicles. How many of these travellers are aware of genetically modified (GM) foods, I wonder? How many are concerned about the Starlink corn incident? Or how many people are simply focused on what's important to them - such as the size of the Thanksgiving turkey and getting home to be with family?