> http://www.miamiherald.com/content/today/news/americas/digdocs/067442.htm
>
> CANADA
> Published Sunday, January 23, 2000, in the Miami Herald
>
> Protester's pie creams speaker at food parley
>
> Biotechnology at center of debate
>
> MONTREAL (CP) -- Protesters delivered an old-fashioned cream pie in
> the face of the genetically modified food industry Friday.
>
> Proponents of biotechnology were holding a news conference to extol
> the virtues of genetically altered food when a pie-wielding protester
> found his mark.
>
> ``Down with biotechnology!'' the assailant shouted. ``We have to eat
> those foods -- not you!''
>
> Joyce Groote, chairman of the Global Industry Coalition, recovered
> from the pie attack with impressive aplomb, saying that ``at least
> they had the good taste to give me something that I actually enjoy.''
>
> Undaunted by the opposition already surfacing as an international
> conference on the subject gets under way in Montreal next week,
> industry officials pressed their case for a global agreement that
> would not subordinate genetically modified products to environmental
> considerations.
>
> The controversial question of genetically modified products is the
> focus of the week-long international conference beginning Monday, as
> representatives from 130 countries attempt to hammer out a deal that
> would regulate a growing and divisive industry.
>
> The biotech approach borrows genetic coding from plants or animals,
> transferring the material to a plant in order to create a desired
> trait. Biotech backers point to the possibility that genetically
> modified seeds could one day create crops boasting high nutrition or
> capable of thriving in adverse weather. However, critics contend that
> crops produced in such ways may not be safe and could have negative
> effects on the environment.
>
> Val Giddings, vice-president of the Biotechnology Industry
> Organization, categorically denied Friday that biotech crops trigger
> problems for human health or the environment.
>
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