Sir, - Kevin O'Sullivan reported (July 19th) on the results of a survey on the contrasting attitudes of Europeans and Americans to so-called genetically modified food. Americans, according to this survey, are "more positive" than Europeans about GM food "despite having an inferior textbook knowledge of the science involved."
Don't I remember the biotech companies assuring their critics that if only they "understood the science involved in genetic modification" they would see how beneficial to everybody it really was?
Could it be that Americans are also "more positive" about the profit-making abilities of the said companies? God bless hard-headed European scepticism. It just might protect us from further spurious scientific harm. - Yours, etc.,
Harriet O'Donovan Sheehy, Dalkey, Co Dublin.