FPIF News | Food Bully

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What's New at FPIF
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August 18, 2003
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Introducing a new commentary from Foreign Policy In Focus

Food Bully
By Conn Hallinan

The decision by the Bush Administration to sue the European Union (EU) over 
its five-year moratorium on genetically modified (GM) foods has all the 
earmarks of a "shock and awe" campaign targeted at prying open a major 
potential market. But the suit before the World Trade Organization (WTO) 
may be aimed less at the EU than at developing nations, which are far more 
vulnerable to strong-arm tactics.

Conn Hallinan <connm at cats.ucsc.edu> is the provost at the University of 
California at Santa Cruz and a political analyst for Foreign Policy In 
Focus (online at www.fpif.org)

See complete new FPIF commentary online at:
http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2003/0308food.html

With printer-friendly PDF version at:
http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0308food.pdf

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