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To: Exacctnt who wrote (1211)	2/17/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 2539

02/17 11:28 Friends of the Earth says Monsanto fine "pathetic" LONDON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Environmental campaigners Friends of the Earth on Wednesday criticised as pathetic a 17,000 pound fine on biotechnology company Monsanto Co <MTC.N>. "This is a pathetic fine. To a company as large as Monsanto it is less a slap on the wrist than a tickle with a legal feather," Friends of the Earth (FoE) Senior Food Campaigner Pete Riley said in a statement. U.S. biotechnology giant Monsanto was on Wednesday fined for breaching environmental regulations at a test site for genetically-modified (GM) crops in eastern England, a spokeswoman for the company said. The company had not contested the case. "Commercial trials of GM crops must be stopped. The big biotech companies must stop playing Russian roulette with the British countryside," FoE's Riley said, calling on the government to call a five-year freeze on licences to produce GM crops.

To: Exacctnt who wrote (1211)	2/17/1999 12:42:00 PM
From: Dan Spillane	Respond to of 2539

If you go through the UK news, you can see that this is no longer a matter of science, but of politics, along party lines. A little bit like the Clinton thing in the US. Except, in the US, something really happened to justify the Clinton scandal. In the UK, loads of fake science and fear are being planted in the minds of the Brits by action groups. Seems like anyone can say anything without having proper qualifications, and the next thing you know, it is a headline in the Brits paper.