Agriculture committee  I might have the number wrong, but I think that GM soy, in North America anyway, is found in about 40% of processed foods that you buy. Soy is prevalent in any kind of processed food that you buy, and there are no problems.

Agriculture committee  I'm no expert on the drift and the size of barriers you might need, but again it seems to me that it comes back to what tolerance there is. If you say you're organic and you have zero tolerance, it puts a huge cost on somebody, so again you've got to come up with a reasonable tol

Agriculture committee  That it is the major thing. We need to be careful, but we also have to realize that zero is just impossible. We have to find a reasonable commercial way of doing this.

Agriculture committee  We changed the system so that we were largely going to have private funding of biotechnology research because it is very expensive to commercialize these things and bring them forth to market, but we created a system whereby only the biggest of the multinationals can do this. I t

Agriculture committee  I'm not an expert on genetics or on genetic drift, but it seems to me that one of the problems is that you create a system in which the people who want to use the biotechnology products.... The way it's couched now, the right is with those who want to grow organics. In other word

Agriculture committee  Thank you for inviting me to present to the committee on the topic of the biotechnology industry. I should preface my remarks by outlining my background and expertise. I'm an agricultural economist in the department of bioresource policy, business, and economics in the faculty o