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Reasons to Be Cheerful

By Iain Murray

September 8, 2005 1:43 PM

The Guardian’s regular environment column says that Katrina’s devastation will “cheer up anti-GM protestors in Britain,” for the fatuous reason that many American exports of genetically-modified foods embark via New Orleans. Biogeographer Phillip Stott is rightly appalled.

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