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GM foods offer a rosy future
Penicillin wouldn't exist if we had the same attitude to pharmaceuticals as we do to genetically modified food. One of the arguments against GM...
Buy into the bunk or let biotech forge on
Early this year a professor from the University of Queensland predicted 60 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef would bleach this summer because of...
The future of food
I have seen the future of food manufacturing in Australia, and it's not the European conglomerate selling organic food to the Asian yuppie market,...
Biotech strategy may be Victoria's poison pill
There are three things politicians should beware of - wine, women and technolologists. -- Georges Pompidou, French president Victorian Premier...
Monster in the chicken shed
Genetically modified food is often called "Frankenfood". Frankenstein was the scientist, not the monster, in Mary Shelley's famous novel. The...
This 'Innovation' is a Charade
It is time to stop the charade! The Victoria Government's innovation strategy is a destructive joke. Last month I was at a conference attended by...
Respect My Right to Choose GM Foods
John Hepburn, the Greenpeace anti-GM Campaign Leader, has told us that transferring a gene from one species to another---the process of genetic...
WA Takes a Commercial Risk in Shunning GM
Last week's decision by Premier Gallop to declare the entire State of Western Australia a 'GM-free area' is likely to come back and haunt the...
Making a Meal Over GM Ban
It turns out that aside from chomping on kebabs in his recent visit to the Middle East, Victorian Premier Steve Bracks was also undertaking market...
Bracks Sowing GM Seeds of Doubt
If the Bracks Government were honest, it would tell us the real reason it announced the ban on the commercial planting of genetically modified (GM)...