Wrong Signal On Biotech

Dr. Henry I. Miller, a physician and Hoover Institution fellow, takes issue with an EPA proposal to monitor transgenic corn from space. He believes the policy not only is ill-conceived but will energize opposition to a technology that already has benefited the environment in a myriad of ways.
“EPA’s policy toward gene-spliced plants is so potentially damaging and outside the norms of sound science that it has galvanized the scientific community. A consortium of dozens of scientific societies representing more than 180,000 biologists and food professionals published a report warning the policy will discourage the development of new pest-resistant crops and prolong and increase the use of synthetic chemical pesticides, increase the regulatory burden for developers of pest-resistant crops, limit the use of biotechnology to larger developers who can pay the inflated regulatory costs, and handicap U.S. companies competing in international markets. All of these warnings have been borne out by the facts.”

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