[lbo-talk] GM something...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 22 06:37:58 PST 2004


Chuck Grimes wrote, quoting me:


>I don't want Monsanto running it,
>but what, in principle, is wrong with biotech? You guys probably
>would have opposed traditional animal and plant breeding too. Doug
>
>---------
>
>As I tried to explain to my kid on Sunday, the issue is not the
>science or the `safety'. The issue is the political economic of GM. It
>is a means (a new, more pervasive, deeper and more thorough means) of
>corporate control over the production of food.

That's why I said I don't want Monsanto running it. People have a hard time separating science from capital.

Doug



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