March 24, 2000

Genetically Modified Organisms Benefit Business, Not the Public

By MARGOT FORD MCMILLEN and HOWARD WIGHT MARSHALL

Quite apart from our roles as academics, we feel that we must respond as taxpayers and consumers to Henry I. Miller's essay ("Combating Pathological Opposition to Gene Splicing," Opinion, February 4).

Miller says that the resistance to genetically manipulated foods is coming from "antitechnology extremists," lumping together all the farmers, parents, environmentalists, researchers, and taxpayers who object to the marriage of research and hucksterism that is