Easing fears of biotech food
Easing fears of biotech food
Why industry opposes labels for genetically modified crops
By Jim Wasserman -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PST Monday, February 20, 2006
Story appeared in Business section, Page D1
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Nineteen months ago Sean Darragh, a former U.S. defense, national security and trade official, became a leading promoter and new public face of the global agricultural biotechnology industry.
Representing more than 1,100 biotech companies, academic institutions and state research centers, Darragh travels the planet as head of food and agriculture for the Biotechnology Industry Organization in Washington, D.C.
As chief spokesman for a decade-old and still controversial technology used on 1 billion acres of farmland worldwide, Darragh tries to reassure a sometimes skeptical public that genetically modified food is both safe and good for the environment.
U.S. farmers grow mostly herbicide-resistant corn, soybeans, cotton, canola, squash and papaya on 123 million acres.
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Why industry opposes labels for genetically modified crops
By Jim Wasserman -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PST Monday, February 20, 2006
Story appeared in Business section, Page D1
Get weekday updates of Sacramento Bee headlines and breaking news. Sign up here.
Nineteen months ago Sean Darragh, a former U.S. defense, national security and trade official, became a leading promoter and new public face of the global agricultural biotechnology industry.
Representing more than 1,100 biotech companies, academic institutions and state research centers, Darragh travels the planet as head of food and agriculture for the Biotechnology Industry Organization in Washington, D.C.
As chief spokesman for a decade-old and still controversial technology used on 1 billion acres of farmland worldwide, Darragh tries to reassure a sometimes skeptical public that genetically modified food is both safe and good for the environment.
U.S. farmers grow mostly herbicide-resistant corn, soybeans, cotton, canola, squash and papaya on 123 million acres.
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