Letter: P for …

Published 20 January 2001

From Robert Anker

So “pharming” can mean pharmaceuticals farming—using genetically
modified crops to make drugs
(23/30 December 2000, p 22).
A more cynical derivation would be “quietly harming” shortened to “p-harming”.

Tugun, Queensland

Issue no. 2274 published 20 January 2001

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