Our friends at Food & Water Watch have revived it with a new report,Biotech Ambassadors: How the US State Department Promotes the Seed Industry’s Global Agenda. The venerable watchdog organization analyzed a total of 926 diplomatic cables, sent between 2005 and 2009, containing the words “biotech” or “GMO.” (GMO refers to genetically modified organisms, including crops grown from genetically engineered – or GE – seeds. Biotechnology encompasses, but does not always refer to, GE technology, but no other biotech methods are mentioned in the report.) The study “reveals a concerted strategy to promote agricultural biotechnology overseas, compel countries to import biotech crops and foods they do not want, and lobby foreign governments – especially in the developing world – to adopt policies to pave the way to cultivate biotech crops.”
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 22:19:41 +0000