Word: goldburg
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...agitprop. To be sure, it was Greenpeace that pressured Gerber to drop genetically altered soybeans and corn from its baby foods and played a key role in forcing Monsanto to halt research on its self-sterilizing "terminator" seeds. But more measured voices have expressed doubts as well. Says Rebecca Goldburg of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): "As a biologist, I find it hard to oppose genetically engineered crops or foods per se. [But] I also think that there are some genuine food-safety and ecological issues that have to be dealt with...
...regulators have approved dozens of genetically modified plants for human consumption. But if public pressure grows, it may be forced to go slower in the future. One possibility: the FDA could begin applying to g.m. foods the powers it already has to regulate food additives. As EDF's Goldburg explains, the proteins produced by new genes are in a sense additives as well--"and while food manufacturers intend food additives to be safe, every now and then they screw up." Even more likely, food producers will respond to the changing public mood by labeling their products as g.m.-free...
Gavan Meehan and Colum Amory play Lord Dramaleigh and the Company Promoter Mr. Goldburg, who brings limited liability to Utopia. As they set about their task of forming a company out of the country, where "every child has its own prospectus" and "every man, woman and child is a company limited," Dramaleigh and Goldburg woo the two highly repressed princesses, much to the annoyance of Lady Sophy, Phantis and Scaphio...
Amory shines as Mr. Goldburg, and his portrayal of the English Gentry is perhaps the most convincing performance...