On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 21:03:33 -0700, Walter Epp wrote:

The US public is still accepting them with no real problem.

The US public is largely unaware that they are consuming them.
That's not acceptance, it's ignorance.

Well, the US consumers were the first to drink water out of packaged
bottles and toss them without refilling.

In the greenest
part of the country a vote on and anti GM law lost 3 to 1. We have some

That result was bought with over $6 per vote of out of state money
spent on a blitz of deception and scare tactics.
The best genetically modified democracy money can buy.

Who voted - the legislature, or the people?

problem with green terrorists but we have been having that for a long time

Attempting to plant an association between advocates of consumer rights
and "terrorists" is a transparent smear.

But it works, because it has the support of the media.
People are so busy chasing the next buck they can't give a shit about the
long term ramifications.

And I'm not sure which is the greater evil - the possibility of severe
biological mishap, or the fact that grown produce is rapidly being
imprisoned by intellectual property encumbrance, to the point where in a
few years non-encumbered seeds for basic staple foods will be totally
unavailable.