GM foods at the White House

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat May 26 12:03:05 PDT 2001


On p. 7 of the new issue of The Nation, under the head "News of the Weak in Review," there appears this item:

"Jennifer Berkshire reports on Alternet that genetically altered foods will be featured on White House menus. The inaugral GM meal will be dished up at a banquet for French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and will include genetically altered super salmon and Star Link corn pudding. (Does M. Jospin approve of this culinary experiment?) It's nice of Bush to give Frankenfoods the First Family test, but the demonstration smells like a paid political announcement for the agribusiness lobby."

Apparently Nation editors didn't realize it, but Berkshire's piece was a joke. It wasn't intended as a Sokal-like hoax, but it's turned into one!

Doug



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