On Mon, 24 May 1999 17:58:22 +0000 Damien Broderick
<damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
>My local suburban rag had a piece today on a man who has persuaded the
>council to `ban' (how?) `genetically modified food'
This might be a rational concern, irrationally described. Plants resist their predators by manufacturing poisons. New forms of the poisons, or new combinations, can easily be toxic to people.