Making Europe Unsafe for Agbiotech
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Since the 1980s biotechnology has been promoted as a symbol of European progress. As a clean technology, agbiotech was meant to enhance efficient agri-production and thus fulfil the beneficent promise of a European Biosociety, like its counterpart of the Information Society. By the early 1990s biotech symbolised the ‘knowledge-based society’ and eventually the Lisbon agenda. At the 2000 Lisbon meeting of the European Council, Ministers committed the EU to become ‘the most competitive and dynamic, knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable growth with more and better jobs’.
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