April 24, 2000 / The Kitchener-Waterloo Record / Jim Romahn
Elbert van Donkersgoed of Guelph, who serves a policy guru for the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario, argues that a voluntary labelling system for genetically-modified foods ought to narrow its focus to the new technologies that manipulate genes, and exclude the older technologies.
This approach dove-tails neatly with the interests of those who oppose the new technologies, but has no merit in terms of safety, either for the environment or the consuming public.
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