Resolution to Honor
Els Cooperrider

The Nature Institute has announced the fruits of a project designed to set the public debate about genetic engineering upon a more accessible scientific foundation. Distilling a voluminous technical literature, they have summarized on their website, www.natureinstitute.org, both the intended and unintended consequences of transgenic experiments. The emerging picture tells a dramatic story - one that, to date, has scarcely begun to inform the public conversation about genetic engineering.
Non-target effects have proven both extensive and wildly unpredictable. The evidence for their occurrence, while mostly buried in the technical literature, is not disputable or even particularly controversial. It's simply not widely known. Once it is known, the frequently heard claim that genetic manipulation of organisms is a "precise science" without dramatic risks will either be voiced no more or will be recognized as dishonest.

"Through evasion of proper science, violation of the law, and systematic misrepresentation of the facts, the manufacturers of genetically engineered foods (abetted by the executive branch of the federal government) have contaminated a large portion of the American food supply with novel products that the FDA's own experts regard as unduly hazardous to public health. Yet, not only are most citizens unaware of the hazards, they don't even know they've been regularly consuming those foods for over a decade."

Steven M. Druker, J.D.
Executive Director
Alliance for Bio-Integrity