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Q J Med 2003; 96: 779-780
© 2003 Association of Physicians

Biologic

Before Frankenstein

Colin Berry

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In the current debate about the skilfully blackguarded ‘Frankenfoods’, the contrast between polemics and the rational documentation produced by the advisory panel chaired by Sir David King is stark. But it is clear that this panel-derived advice was hard to produce; there were clear tensions and one member of the panel resigned during the process. I will not comment on this debate (as the editor knows, I have been consulted by the industry about the risks that some believe may be related to this technology), but I thought it might be informative to look at a previous radical change in agricultural practise to see if the then-prevailing attitudes inform us about our current difficulties.

The ‘Green Revolution’ can be said to have operated from the late . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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