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Viewpoint on Biotechnology
Title: Viewpoint on Biotechnology
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 798 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Viewpoint on Biotechnology
Viewpoint: Environmentalists Should Embrace Biotech Wonders
August 23, 2000 Scripps Howard News Service
Environmentalists frequently urge industry to adopt "clean technologies" that reduce pollution and promote conservation.
Why is it, then, that those same environmentalists advocate a ban on agricultural biotechnology that significantly reduces the use of potentially harmful pesticides, decreases soil erosion by up to 98 percent and helps prevent the destruction of ecologically important rain forests?
Their opposition makes no sense. Indeed, environmentalists should be stumbling …showed first 75 words of 798 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 798 total…science" in which farming is once again an "emotional, aesthetic experience produced with love and creativity."
While Wan-Ho may find something "aesthetic" in a farmer getting off his tractor and breaking his back using discarded techniques, it is doubtful that many farmers share her quixotic opinions.
Sadly, there is just no pleasing the environmental movement when it comes to technological progress Ñ even if it means a world with fewer hungry people and a better environment.
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