Farmers are in fight or flee mode; they are confused, scared and angry,
observed Ed Shonsey, the president and CEO of Novartis Seeds, Thursday
in
an Iowa speech. "And you know what bothers them the most?" he asked.
"It's not the government. Or the weather. Or even the seed companies.
What has farmers upset -- so upset their eternal optimism is in serious
danger of becoming permanent pessimism -- is ignorance. Ignorance.
Ignorance on the part of a group of people, who, in the name of
protecting
the environment, have imperiled the near-term future of agricultural
biotechnology." He makes an impassioned case for the science behind,
and
the potentially great benefits of biotechnology. Read the full text of
his
speech here:
http://www.agriculture.com/scgi/notebook/nb.cgi?FNC=Correspondents__Anb_list_html___780
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