The battle to keep GMOs off the menu has now been all but lost. It has taken little more than a decade for GM food to mutate from the ‘novel’ to the mundane. Despite significant consumer opposition and concerns over safety, today none but the most diligent of consumers can reasonably expect to avoid the routine consumption of genetically engineered material with their daily bread.
As we move towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century, it seems that the next stage in the corporate-led agricultural and food revolution is already upon us: we are moving from the era of the genetically engineered into the era of the atomically engineered. ‘Nanotechnology’ – loosely defined by Friends of the Earth as ‘the manipulation of materials and the creation of structures and systems at the scale of atoms and molecules, the nanoscale’ – is rapidly becoming the buzzword of the decade. By the end of the next decade it seems likely that nanofoods too will have become standard fare.
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Nanofoods: Size Really Does Matter
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Size Really Does Matter
By Dr. Naomi Salmon
ECOLOGIST, June 19, 2008
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