Viewpoint: Environmentalists Should Embrace Biotech Wonders August 23, 2000 Scripps Howard News Service Environmentalists frequently urge industry to adopt "clean technologies" that reduce pollution and promote conservation. Why is it, then, that those same environmentalists advocate a ban on agricultural biotechnology that significantly reduces the use of potentially harmful pesticides, decreases soil erosion by up to 98 percent and helps prevent the destruction of ecologically important rain forests? Their opposition makes no sense. Indeed, environmentalists should be stumbling …
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