Not since the grand utopian promises of the nuclear industry has a new technology made such grand claims as the genetic engineering (GE) industry now makes.
Those claims are not based on rigorous
science, but the selling of
the idea of GE to scientists, politicians and others. Little funding is
given by industry or government to examine potential problems with GE,
and in general approvals are given to GE foods and GE crops based
primarily on company data.
Nonetheless,
good science is still being
done.
Victorian canola farmer Geoffrey Carracher reveals how his GE-free crop became contaminated with Bayer's Liberty Link gene.