Biotech: unfulfilled promises: biotechnology still hasn't lived up to its promises of enhanced nutritional quality, reduced allergens and improved crop yields. It's time to label these products or consumers will vote with their wallets. (Food Forum).

Grocery Headquarters, May, 2003 by Neil E. Levin

While it's true that many health agencies have approved biotech foods, it has not been on the basis of impartial, peer-reviewed published studies. Our government decided 10 years ago that genetic engineering was no different from natural crossbreeding, based solely on unpublished science submitted by the crop developers themselves. Its new definition of "rigorous scientific evaluations" apparently doesn't include independent and impartial research. Government policy since then has been to treat biotech crops and foods as innocent until proven guilty.

Assuring us that biotech foods are "at least as safe as selective breeding," government regulators have chosen to ignore many facts. For instance, "unexplained gene fragments" of unknown toxicity were admittedly...