Food FetishLet them eat Peruvian Purple Potatoes
In this country alone, more than a hundred separate organizations agitate against what they derisively call "Frankenfoods." According to their tax returns and annual reports, such groups spent over $400 million worldwide in 2001. Connecting the dots between rhetoric and financial muscle, DNA-research pioneer James Watson has pointed out the obvious: behemoths like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth "get bigger memberships if people are afraid of their food." read more here »
