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July 16, 2004
Eudoxa supports the FAO
In May the UN Food and Agriculture Organization released a report about genetically modified plants and their role in fighting world hunger. This report has come under fierce criticism.
We at the Eudoxa think tank fail to see why the report should inspire such critique, and we suspect that it is because the report focuses on the uses of plant biotechnology instead of dismissing it out of hand (as many of the anti-biotechnology movement would like to).
Thus we have co-signed a letter to the Director General of FAO, Jacques Diouf, showing our support for FAO moving the discussion about agricultural biotechnology away from polarizing political rhetoric and either/or debates toward how best to utilize and apply agricultural biotechnology to the needs of the world's poor and undernourished.
Posted by Waldemar at July 16, 2004 09:57 AM