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"How Americans Relate to Genetically Engineered Foods"
International Food Information Council
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Monsanto, Kraft, and others spent large sums for research to tell them that people wouldn't want food that was engineered. Thus, began the age of euphamisms and inaccurate metaphors that have formed the lexicon of genetic engineering since 1992. This is the industry document that became part of Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future by PR Watch's John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton. An excerpt is on the PR Watch website.

Survey by the Alliance for Better Food
sponsored by the Grocery Manufacturers of America and BSMG Worldwide (9/99) (537KB Microsoft Powerpoint slideshow)

The manipulation behind the marketing of genetically engineered foods is enough to make anyone lose his/her lunch. Find out who the Grocery Manufacturers of America are targeting and how they plan to reach them.