There has to be a market for biotech or else there will be no premium for non-biotech/organic. The opportunity missed by conventional agriculture continues to be the soft underbelly of the organic approach, which lacked a scientific basis and thus had to be legislated into existence.

This week was like all previous weeks – dotted with media stories seeded by anti-food biotechnology zealots about the dangers of this modern agricultural production method. The failure to limit greenhouse gas emissions has been due both to economic reasons and skepticism about the science being presented. The full-on attack against food biotechnology has been similarly rooted with marketers of organic and non-GM foods funding the campaign also challeng...