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John Bolton, the blunt and controversial U.S. ambassador to the U.N. has promised "to advance American interests and ideals at the United Nations." In his first two months, Mr. Bolton has denounced the U.N. Development Program for its "unacceptable" funding of Palestinian propaganda and publicly identified "countries who are in a state of denial" about the need for U.N. reform. He told a reporter he feels "a little like Rod Serling has suddenly appeared and we're writing episodes from 'The Twilight Zone.' "
I had a similar experience in Japan as a member of the U.S. delegation to a U.N. task force on biotechnology-derived foods - a creature of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which sets food standards for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO).See the full content of this document
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Biotech-for-Food 'Twilight Zone'
The very scope of this exercise - which has gone on for five years and shows no signs of abating - makes no sense. It is concerned with regulatory requirements only for foods made with the newest, most precise and predictable techniques of biotechnology - gene-splicing, or ge...
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