Re: BBC NEWS | Africa | Famine-hit Zambia rejects GM food aid

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

1)  The situation might be more understandable when you consider that the

people

who make the decision to reject GM foods are not  the people who are

starving.



2) For anyone wondering about a possible link between this thread and LNT,

how about those who cling to the LNT because "it is the right thing to do"

(regardless of how much harm it might cause to social and economic health

and well-being)



----- Original Message -----

From: Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>

To: Radsafe <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:34 PM

Subject: BBC NEWS | Africa | Famine-hit Zambia rejects GM food aid





> Radsafe:

> For those interested in foolish applications of risk aversion and a

perverted sense of applying the

> "precautionary principle" to a fear of genetically modified foods [similar

to radiophobia among many],

> see the link below to Zambia refusing food aid to help millions of its

citizens facing starvation. As Alf

> once quipped:

> "Dogma, dogma, dog manure"

>

> Once again, politics and fear trumps science and common sense.

>

> Stewart Farber, MS Public Health

>

>







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