Authors from the United States and the United Kingdom deconstruct the controversies of agriculturalbiotechnology and offer solutions to the current impasse.

Our culture is in the grip of the “precautionary principle.” From agricultural biotechnology and biomedicine to geopolitics, international business, education, and our most intimate relationships, risk aversion has become a defining and paralyzing ethic of our time. The notion that we should forsake the products and benefits of new...

Participants at a June 12 AEI conference described the potential for biotechnology to alleviate malnutrition in the developing world by genetically modifying agricultural products.

Press release/summary for the book Let Them Eat Precaution, edited by Jon Entine.

For more than two decades, scientists have been working to develop a range of animal, agricultural, and industrial products (such as foods and pharmaceuticals) made with the help of genetic modification. As has often been the case with the introduction of new scientific methods, gene manipulation has stirred intense...

Detailed agenda and summary for 6/12/2003 event.