Monday, July 10, 2006

Bt or not Bt, that's the question

Don't get me wrong, I'm not on the side of agribusiness. I'm all for slow food and small farms. But let's call a spade a spade when it comes to biotech food. Agri uses it to maximise profits--in some insidious ways, too, like preventing farmers from collecting seeds from one harvest to use to plant the next. But is biotech food dangerous to our health or the health of the enviornment? Probably less so than some environmental groups would want us to believe. Let's call Monsanto on what it is big, greedy, capitalistic. But let's not squander our fight on the wrong things. Here's a rational Q&A on Bt corn.