On behalf of the more than one million members and supporters of CAGW, our Center for International Food and Agriculture Policy has recently launched an initiative to educate the public, policymakers, and the media about the benefits of agriculture biotechnology. We look forward to working with members of the House Biotech Caucus to dispel the myths and misperceptions surrounding genetically modified crops.
Biotechnology holds great promise for American farmers and for the environment.
It can help fight world hunger and malnutrition. Despite its benefits, however, biotechnology is threatened on many fronts. In particular, there is a misinformation and scare campaign being waged by organizations like the so-called Genetically Engineered Food Alert, which targets companies that allegedly use foods with genetically engineered ingredients. CAGW encourages supermarkets, food distributors and food manufacturers not to heed the unscientific claims of anti-biotechnology activists who would restrict the development of this important technology that can benefit consumers around the world. Our hope is that the House Biotech Caucus will help counteract unscientific and spurious claims, and help insure that the regulatory requirements for bioengineered foods remain product, rather than process, based.