I just read an article about genetically engineered cows that give extra protein in milk, with the added claim that such a technology will be able to feed starving nations. Now I'm still on the fence about GE, but the claim that there is a food shortage in the world is downright stupid. Those are the claims those silly ZPG people make.
Here's the article:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/03/item20020327121850_1.htm>
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
> ***** Food is not a human right
>
> ...[I]n 1982 and 1983, the US was alone in voting
> against a
> declaration that education, work, health care,
> proper nourishment and
> national development are human rights. It would
> appear that even 13
> years later, official American attitudes had not
> "softened". In
> 1996, at a United Nations-sponsored World Food
> Summit, the US took
> issue with an affirmation by the summit of the
> "right of everyone to
> have access to safe and nutritious food". The
> United States insisted
> that it does not recognize a "right to food".
> Washington instead
> championed free trade as the key to ending the
> poverty at the root of
> hunger, and expressed fears that recognition of a
> "right to food"
> could lead to lawsuits from poor nations seeking aid
> and special
> trade provisions. [2]
>
> [2] _Washington Post_, November 18, 1996
>
> (William Blum, _Rogue State: A Guide to the World's
> Only Superpower_,
> Monroe, Maine, Common Courage Press, 2000, p. 198)
> *****
> --
> Yoshie
>
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