On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:26:51 -0500, Jim wrote:

>The book was published by the American Association of Petroleum
>Geologists.

On the same day as "Smoking can increase your life span by 150=
 years"
published by the Philip Morris Department of Life Sciences :)

It's also interesting to note that the UK's most vociferous and
outspoken GM critic, Lord Melchet (ex head of UK Greenpeace,=
 famously
arrested and charged with trashing UK GM field trials) is also=
 one of
Europe's largest Organic farmers. As of January this year, he has=

joined Burson-Marsteller's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)=
 unit
- a Monsanto PR firm...

And, despite it's reputation as a giant multi-national=
 corporation,
Monsanto's annual turnover is around 10 times smaller than the UK=

supermarket chain Tesco.

I'll lay my cards on the table, I spent 8 months working on a GM=

documentary called Modified Truth. I'm broadly pro GM (I've=
 visited
the hospitals in Africa where they try to cope with a quarter to=
 half
million children going blind from vitamin A deficiency each year=
 -
half of them will die within twelve months of going blind), but=
 more
importantly, I'm vehemently opposed to anything placed before the=

public that clouds an informed debate, whether that be bad=
 science,
hooky statistics, or media hysteria.

Gwynne

--
Gwynne Reddick, gwynne@mememachines.net on 23/08/2002

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