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Biotech / Medical : Monsanto Co. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jopawa who wrote (1719)	3/19/1999 10:16:00 AM
From: valg	Respond to of 2539

the key would be for the biotech industry to fund an INDUSTRY spokesgroup...similar to "friends of the forest"...a forest industry lobby that concentrates on countering the anti-logging arm of greenpeace....has been very effective in squashing falsehoods from special interest groups monsanto could never win doing it alone

To: jopawa who wrote (1719)	3/19/1999 11:09:00 AM
From: Edscharp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2539

I agree that Monsanto could've handled the PR better. But, by the same token, who could've predicted this kind of mass hysteria over something as beneficial, at least innocuous, as GM foods. It appears to be something unique to British culture. Certainly, there are GM critics in this country. But, what's going on in Britain has not transferred over the Atlantic and I predict it won't. What Monsanto has to do is work with British scientists and health officials and begin a concerted effort to reassure the British public that their fears are groundless. Like "cabbage patch kids" and "Tickle me Elmo" These mass hysteria things eventually burn themselves out.

To: jopawa who wrote (1719)	3/19/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Respond to of 2539

WATCHDOG CHIEF IN NEW GM CROP ROW The Mirror March 19, 1999 THE boss of the Environment Agency is allowing genetically modified crop experiments on his land for a second time, The Mirror can reveal. Lord de Ramsey, chairman of the government watchdog, sparked fury last year when it was revealed he was allowing GM food giant Monsanto to carry out experiments on his land. Despite the row he is now renting 60 acres of his estate in Abbots Ripton, Cambs, to a Swedish firm which is carrying out three tests on oilseed rape. GM crop trials are highly controversial because of increasing concern that they could pose a threat to the environment. There were fresh calls last night for the peer to quit his £50,000-a-year part time job. Friends of the Earth said: "How can someone who is supposed to be protecting the environment justify growing crops that threaten it?" A spokeswoman for the Environment Agency said: "Our view is that we need rigorous trials so we can have a proper debate." Lord de Ramsey was unavailable for comment. mirror.co.uk