Có lẽ không có vấn đề chính trị đã được thúc đẩy unremittingly Internet như là công nghệ sinh học thực phẩm. Có lẽ bởi vì rất nhiều động lực đằng sau cuộc biểu tình chống lại sinh vật biến đổi gen có nguồn gốc từ nước ngoài, hoặc có lẽ vì số lượng lớn và đa dạng của các lợi ích liên quan đến, hoặc có lẽ bởi vì các hoạt động mạng và thay đổi di truyền của thực phẩm đến tuổi trưởng thành vào thời điểm đó hầu như cùng một - bất cứ lý do, cuộc. | Section VIII Web Sites 2002 by CRC Press LLC 290 Environmental Politics Casebook Genetically Modified Foods There is perhaps no issue whose politics have been driven so unremittingly by the Internet as bioengineering of food. Perhaps because so much of the impetus behind the protest against GMOs has originated in foreign countries or perhaps because of the vast number and diversity of interests involved or perhaps because cyber activism and the genetic modification of food came of age at virtually the same time whatever the reason this particular political war is a product of the electronic revolution. In addition to the Web sites of the national environmental advocacy organizations . Greenpeace Friends of the Earth Environmental Defense the Sierra Club and those of the . government agencies with regulatory responsibilities over GMOs the Department of Agriculture the EPA the . Food and Drug Administration and foreign authorities as wide ranging as the . Parliament the European Union the United Nations and the World Health Organization the following each have Web sites and links dedicated to GMOs. Advocacy Groups like the Alliance for Better Foods the Campaign for Food Safety Consumer Alert the Food Biotech Communications Network Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy the Food Marketing Institute the European Food Information Council the International Center for Technology Assessment and the Organic Consumers Association Trade Associations like the American Seed Trade Association the Canola Council of Canada the National Cotton Industry the National Food Processors Association the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the American Soybean Association Farmers Organizations like the American Corn Growers Association the American Farm Bureau Federation the National Family Farm Coalition and the National Farmers Union Grain Processors like Archer Daniels Midland ConAgra the Corn Refiners Association . Staley and the National Grain and Feed .
