From Eileen Holttum
I choose not to eat genetically modified products not because I am afraid of “Frankenstein foods” but because I object to every single aspect of my life, possibly including my genetic make-up, becoming subject to patenting and big business interests (4 February, p 25). The object of business is to promote its products and reward its shareholders, not to better humanity.
Though there is much trumpeting about better crops for developing countries, most commercial food research seems to be aimed at industrial-scale agriculture, where the profits are. The same sad trend can be seen in drug research, where devastating tropical diseases, some still treated with remedies 50 years old, are almost ignored in favour of research into diseases of affluence.
Edinburgh, UK
