"Alex Rast" > wrote in message
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> at Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:49:40 GMT in >,
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> I find it disappointing that in the GMO debate, so many of the arguments
> from both sides presented in the public media try to marginalise the other
> side. This has had the effect of turning the question into a battle of
> opposing polemics, stifling any thoughtful discussion or analysis of the
> issues. And this has on the one side meant a curtailment of research and
> products that might actually have been useful, and on the other side
> almost
> zero visibility into the process, with concomitant ability to make
> rational
> choices, for the concerned public.
>
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> Alex Rast
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I don't like to see a dismissive attitude toward this topic. There is, of
course, much more that you have already discussed. Worries about emergence
of pesticide resistant insects and organisms. Diminishing plant gene pool.
Farmers dependent upon future contracts with large processing companies and
locked into specific seeds to fulfill that contract.
Janet