Friday, July 20, 2012

Is the food industry under attack from an ‘NGO/media complex’?

With NGOs increasingly turning their attention to food production – and often doing a better job than the food industry of engaging with the media – the debate about issues from biotechnology to BPA will only become more polarized, one author has predicted.
Jon Entine, director of the Genetic Literacy Project and a senior research fellow at the Center for Health & Risk Communication at George Mason University, has written several books on this topic including Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution and Scared to Death: How Chemophobia Threatens Public Health.
NGOs and advocacy groups often lead rather than follow the consumer
Speaking at the IFT show in Las Vegas last month, Entine noted that food and agriculture represented “one of the biggest growth areas for NGO (non-governmental organization) activity”, but argued that in many cases, “NGOs and advocacy groups lead rather than follow the consumer”.

Read more: http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Science/Is-the-food-industry-under-attack-from-an-NGO-media-complex

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