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Genetic engineering 'is about profit, not feeding the world'
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PROFESSOR Clive Splash, a leading environmental economist, claimed
at a public debate at the weekend that genetic engineering of plants
and animals is simply technology in search of profit.
But Dr Harry Griffin, of the Roslin Institute, countered by
arguing that much resistance to biotechnology is anti-US, anti-
internationalism and "sheer bloody-mindedness".
Splash, head of research in rural economy at the Macaulay Land Use
Research Institute in Aberdeen, told a public meeting at the Royal
Botanic Garden in Edinburgh: "Consumers have not asked for genetic
engineering of plants and animals. ...
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