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Subject: Long but Interesting Read
From: "Kevin Ancell" <kancell AT goodearthgardens.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 04:47:39 -0500
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[B] A Strange Hybrid...Organic Food And Biotechnology
June 27, 2001

THE BridgeNews FORUM: On farming, farm policy
and related agricultural issues.

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* Anti-Biotech Activists Are Faced With Fading Public Interest And

A Clean Environmental Bill Of Health For Genetically Modified Crops


By David Walker, agricultural economist

BridgeNews

NORWICH, England--While the genetically modified crop war is being waged
with intensity elsewhere in the world, the front in Britain has been
relatively quiet in the past few months.

This is surprising, considering that Britain has just has a general
election. The greatest challenge for the anti-biotech activists is the


............. (cut  way  short)


Hello,

     Readers should beware of anything out of Bridge News. They work hand 
in hand with the ultra right wing, corporately financed Hudson Institute, 
home of Dennis Avery, organic hatchetman and star of John Stossel's smear 
of organics on ABC's 20/20 program last year (for which he had to 
publicly apologize for fabricating evidence). 
     Also keep your eyes out for these other Biotech/AgriCorp front 
groups:
          Frontiers of Freedom
          Center for Global Food Issues
          Heartland Institute
          Competitive Enterprise Institute
          Citizens for a Sound Economy
          International Consumers for Civil Society
          National Center for Public Policy Research
     
     It is a sign, I suppose, of Organic's expanded clout with consumers 
that a protracted disinformation and scare campaign is being mounted 
against it. If you want to see something scary check out 
www.NoMoreScares.com and how Alex Avery (son of Dennis) and others twist 
truths and try to smear organic-ers as "fear profiteers", when that is 
exactly what THEY are doing...

Steve Gilman
Ruckytucks Farm