May 3/00 / Reuters/AP
WASHINGTON - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman was cited as saying on Wednesday the U.S. government cannot be simply a cheerleader for biotechnology and must assure consumers that it is an impartial regulator of genetically-altered food, adding, "The whole idea here is to ensure there is public confidence in the safety of the food supply."
London Times / May 6 2000 BRITAIN / BY VALERIE ELLIOTT, COUNTRYSIDE EDITOR
ENGLAND's "green and pleasant land" is to be transformed into a sea of blue,
white and yellow in the fight against genetically modified food.
by Francesca Noceti / May. 5, 2000 / Wired News
MILAN, Italy -- After this week's war declaration against genetically
modified products, Italy's Green agriculture minister on Friday revoked next
month's sponsorship for Tebio, an international exhibition and congress on
biotechnology.
May 2, 2000 / The Associated Press
HARLAN, Iowa -- Depending on one's point of view, the agricultural practice of "bundling" is, according to this story, either the equivalent of one-stop shopping for farmers or another step toward consolidation.
May 7 2000 / N.Y. Times
Richard Caplan of the Washington-based U.S. Public Interest Research Group,
writes that the Clinton administration's new proposal regarding agricultural
biotechnology (news article, May 4) is a welcome acknowledgment that
current oversight needs improvement, but the proposal is inadequate.
