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>
>PRN CONSUMER ALERT:
>Sep8 1999 5:21
>
>WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The following op-ed piece is by Frances
>B. Smith, Executive Director of Consumer Alert:
>Archer Daniels Midland Co. -- fond of touting itself as "Supermarket to the
>World" -- should change its slogan to "Specialty Market to the Rich of the
>World." ADM recently warned its grain suppliers they would have to
>segregate crops produced from biotechnology from those produced
>conventionally. Not only would this redundancy cause prices to rise
>significantly for consumers on a whole range of food products, but
>reactions like ADM's could spread and grind to a halt the potential
>benefits that biotechnology could bring to millions of starving and
>malnourished people in developing countries. ADM's action came in the wake
>of hysteria in Europe fueled by anti-biotechnology activists and fanned by
>tabloid-type media coverage. The anti- biotech campaigns have moved quickly
>to the U.S. and Canada. Leading the charge was Greenpeace, whose first
>targets were baby food producers -- Gerber, for one --
>snip
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