----- forwarded message ----- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:30:18 -0000 From: "reg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: GM Food On The Way Out from the Oread Daily
GM FOOD GOING BYE BYE Companies are investing less in genetically modified food now then they were five years ago, profits are static, labeling and import laws are being tightened. Sergey Vasnetsov, a leading chemical industry analyst with Lehman Brothers, says: "The outlook [for the GM food industry] is less certain than it was three years ago. Benedict Haerlin, Greenpeace International's GM analyst, agrees: "The wonder times are over. The promises have not materialized. There are still only four major crops being grown." In the US, the area planted with GM foods is still increasing at a rapid rate despite the fact that the government admits that doubts over GM products have damaged exports. Europe, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea now largely buy non-GM maize and soya from Brazil and China rather than the US. In addition, consumer support is waning in the US. An ABC poll in June found that 52% believed GM foods were "not safe to eat", and only 35% expressed total confidence. Last year a Gallup poll found that 51% saw no hazard. Sources: Manchester Weekly Guardian, GE Food Alert Campaign Center The Oread Daily provides daily (Monday-Friday) progressive, left, anti-racist, anarchist, commie, activist, environmental, Marxist, revolutionary, etc. news and information from around the US and around the world. The Oread Daily was a mimeographed sheet that came out first in the summer of 1970 in Lawrence, Kansas. It was irreverent, radical, spicy, revolutionary et. al. Now, three decades later it returns. To view the entire Oread Daily, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OreadDaily
