Anti-Biotech Vote in CA has Global Implications

"Californians who think they are voting for safer food by banning biotech may in fact be unintentionally denying proven safer foods to people in developing countries. " So contend, Bruce Chassy, professor of food, microbiology and nutritional sciences and executive associate director of the Biotechnology Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Drew Kershen, professor of law at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

They explain, "an anti-biotech trend in a major agricultural state like California can reverberate in nations unfamiliar with the safety record of biotech crops. Consider what has taken place in Africa in recent months. Leaders of some African nations, misled by anti-biotech activists, have refused to accept shipments of U.S. corn sent to feed millions of starving people. If they won't accept free grain to feed their people, they certainly won't allow their countrymen to plant improved seeds that could reduce the risk of birth defects."

Read the rest of the story in this article from Checkbiotech.org.