Markets and Jobs and Choice, Oh My!

摘要

Val Giddings, a long-time advocate of agricultural biotechnology, recently penned a provocative column in Food Chemical News ridiculing the notion of compensating organic farmers for market loss due to "contamination" of crops by GMOs (see FCN Oct. 14, 2011, Page 23).This is a not-so-veiled attempt to thwart the integrity of the Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21), which was revived by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, is now chaired by former Pennsylvania agriculture secretary Russell Redding, and is charged with a serious task: the future of agriculture.