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To: LindyBill who wrote (97897)	5/11/2003 5:24:34 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<Don't Pester Europe on Genetically Modified Food> Both the US and the EU spend over $100B/y each, on agricultural subsidies. Both constantly engage in thinly veiled trade restraints, to protect local producers at the expense of foreigners. And both give lip service to free trade and a level playing field. The losers here, are farmers in poor countries, who have no powerful wealthy governments to back up their interests. I don't quite understand why French housewives are so worried about feeding their babies FrankenFood. There is a big danger here, that genetic technology, could go the way of nuclear power technology. It could get such a bad reputation, that there is a broad consensus against even considering the technology. The French are against genetically modified corn, but don't mind having nuclear plants in their back yards. Americans have the opposite attitudes on those two technologies. It would be interesting, to try and figure out why these two populations have come to their different beliefs. The facts available are the same to all.

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