Agriculture Losing the War Modern agricultural practices will never obtain approval from their philosophical antagonists; the goal is to explain agriculture's scientific and economic rationale to elite opinion leaders who are more committed to facts. Unfortunately, the editorial by the Los Angeles Times against Prop 37 requiring labeling of biotech foods is damning of the entire agrifood system, and hardly helpful to biotech. The paper's problem appears to be that Prop 37 would only inform consumers about biotech while ignoring all of the other evils of the system, like pesticides, antibiotics and animal crowding.It says the U.S. "rushed headlong into producing them [biotech crops] with lax federal oversight." Its minor concession is tha...

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