FC: Environmentalists oppose GM crops, let Africans starve to death?

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20020830-2441442.htm

   August 30, 2002
   Greens accused of helping Africans starve
   By Paul Martin and Nicole Itano
   THE WASHINGTON TIMES

   JOHANNESBURG U.S. AID Administrator Andrew Natsios accused
   environmental groups yesterday of endangering the lives of millions of
   famine-threatened Africans by encouraging their governments to reject
   genetically modified U.S. food aid.
        "They can play these games with Europeans, who have full
   stomachs, but it is revolting and despicable to see them do so when
   the lives of Africans are at stake," Mr. Natsios said in an interview.
        Mr. Natsios did not name specific groups, but other officials
   indicated he was infuriated by the activities in Zambia a country he
   had just visited of groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the
   Earth.
        "They are using big-time, very well-organized propaganda the
   likes of which I have never seen before" in 12 years of American-led
   famine-relief efforts, said Mr. Natsios, who could not persuade the
   Zambians to accept U.S. food aid.

   [...] 




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