The bloggers react

On Dec 9th 2006 The Economist had a leader on "Ethical food: Good food?" and a special report on "Food policy: Voting with your trolley". The Economist made the point that non-conventional food production and trade, such a organic food, local food and fair trade may not achieve the environmental objectives they purport to achieve.
I thought that much of what The Economist had written was fairly obvious I only felt that something could also have been said about the irrational disparaging by the religeously green of GMO food, including the research on GMO food crops, research that is bound to benefit and not harm farmers and consumers in developing countries.
Apparently, The Economist has hit a raw nerve with some greens. On Dec 16th 2006 the NewYork Times reports that some bloggers have begun to voice their disaggreement with The Economist's view on food and food policy.

RAEM