At 02:19 PM 6/8/99 EST5EDT, Anita Graf (Staff) wrote:
>
>> The vilification of Monsanto is just one example of a
>> growing anti-American slant to the debate about food in
>> Europe.
>>
>> Indeed, food safety now seems to be one of the easiest
>> places for ugly nationalist emotions to hide. Europe's
>> Common Agricultural Policy is the single nastiest piece of
>> protectionism in the world; its American equivalent is not
>> much better. Politicians, whether they are Presidential
>> candidates in Iowa or prospective deputies in Normandy,
>> conspicuously avoid talk of reform.
>>
>> It is not inconceivable that in a decade's time people will
>> look back on the current rows about food as a turning point
>> for both globalization and what used to be called the
>> Western alliance. If so, that old saying -- "what is good
>> for G.M. is good for America" -- may have an ironic ring.
>>
>> John Micklethwait, the New York bureau chief of The
>> Economist, is the co-author of a forthcoming book on
>> globalization.
>
>Someone needs to alert Mr. Micklethwait that the anti-GM,
>anti-Monsonto stance is not just for Europeans who want to bash the
>US. There are plenty of us on this side of the ocean who are on
>*that* side of the argument. Journalists and politicians need to get
>a clue. Anita
>
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