Stressing health concerns changes biotech agriculture into a personal matter of lifestyle, food obsessions, and risk tolerance.
Some work sponsored by the biotech council concerns biological control in horticulture, which benefits the organic sector.
They are about biotech corporations seeking to take ownership of the global food chain.
The authors also spend some time discussing biotechnology and the associated proliferation of start-up companies, in a more optimistic vein than the current state of the biotech market would justify.
But labelling serves many different functions, some of which will not benefit the anti-biotech movement.
Controlling biotech babies following the transfer of self-replicating inventions.
By 2005, 8.5 million farmers in 21 countries were growing biotech crops, up from 8.25 million farmers in 17 countries in 2004.
This ®nding is surprising, given the ongoing debate surrounding biotech foods and traceability.
