Biotechnology
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such as growth hormones for cattle
and swine.
Bentley said the USDA is
comitted to supporting basic and
applied biotechnology research
and is an active participant in the
development of coordinated
research and regulatory
guidelines. We need to be able to
make the scientifically sound
risk/benefit analysis required to
establish reasonable criteria for
evaluating the performance under
natural conditions.
“Fundamentally,” Bentley said,
“we have to realize that we do in
science and in the development of
new technology has a great deal to
do with the competitive position of
U.S. industry, and especially our
great American agricultural in
dustry.”
Marie Cantley, chairman of the
Unit For Biotechnology in Europe
under the commission of the
European communities, used a
quote from Gulliver’s Travels
dated 1726. The quote by Jonathan
Swift says, “And he gave it for his
opinion that whoever could make
two ears of com or two blades of
grass to grow upon a spot of ground
where only one grew before would
deserve better of mankind and do
more essential service to his
country than the whole race of
politicians put together.”
However, Cantley said Jonathan
Swift didn’t see the problem of
producing 10 ears of com or 10
blades of grass. Now the
politicians are engaged in selling
them, storing them, or reducing
the number of ears or blades of
grass. The difficult things to
communicate in biotechnology
include four key characteristics.
One, the inherent scope for further
scientific discovery and hence vast
but unpredictable technological
potential, which have been opened
up by the cummulative and
recently accelerating progress in
the life sciences. Two, the on
remitting competitive economic
challenge agricultural and in
dustrial between the major blocks
and between the major companies
of which advanced technology is of
growing importance. Three, the
justified hopes of reducing or even
eliminating hunger and disease.
And four, widespread popular
apprehension about nonunderstood
science and socially or culturally
unacceptable innovation.
“I have no doubt that occasions
like this forum are of high value in
drawing attention both to the
marvels of biotechnology and to
the challenges of its political
management,” Cantley concluded.
“I think that the open societies of
the western democracies have two
strategic advantages in
biotechnology. Firstly, our open
flow of information stimulates our
science in both cooperative and
competitive activities. Secondly,
our open processes of challenge
and inquiry enable us to control the
new technologies in the service of
human needs. As individuals in
society, we have much to learn
from one another.”
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