Bush: "Let's go eat some gm food for lunch."

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BioDemocracy News #43 (August 2003) Genetically Modified Democracy
Quarterly News By: Ronnie Cummins
Organic Consumers Association www.organicconsumers.org
Quotes of the Month:

"In summary, the risk to Monsanto's shareholders from the company's genetic engineering business are substantial. the company faces business constraints in the form of market rejection by consumers, producers, and farmers; significant legislative hurdles to commercialization; uncertainty in the face of human health and environmental impacts stemming from the company's products; and finally, significant risk exposure from potential contamination of the human food chain by unapproved genetically engineered traits." Monsanto & Genetic Engineering: Risks for Investors
A report prepared by Strategic Value Advisors (April 2003)

http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/goingdown041903.cfm

"Let's go eat some genetically modified food for lunch,"

George Bush, at a meeting with EU officials in Washington, June 25, 2003

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Genetically Modified Democracy: Corralling the Critics

Running full speed to catch up with several thousand non-violent protestors on "L" Street in Sacramento, I'm just a few yards ahead of a advancing phalanx of Darth Vader look-alike cops, who are brandishing stun guns and riot batons. As a booming voice announces via bullhorn "Leave the area immediately or you will all be arrested," it's pretty clear that the White House's biotech bullying has reached a new level of desperation. Here at the June 23-25 USDA summit conference on biotechnology in Sacramento, (sort of a warm-up event for the September WTO Ministerial Meeting in Cancun), even the police horses are decked out with ankle guards and head visors,
backed up by heavily-armed motorcycle cops, armored personnel barriers, and an army of 2,000 riot police-dispatched to "protect" 500 international agricultural delegates from America's Frankenfood critics.

As a government official from Africa remarks, "I've never seen such a
display of police force, other than in Communist states." Rounding a street corner, out of breath, I watch a beefy policeman charge into a young woman and knock her to the ground, apparently for the crime of standing too close to a Starbucks café with a protest sign. Welcome to the post 9/11 Republic of Genetically Modified Democracy. For more on the Sacramento protests see http://www.organicconsumers.org/ge/global_ag_usda.cfm