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The analysis of more than nine hundred diplomatic cables from 113 countries by the organization Food & Water Watch exposes a carefully organized campaign to weaken the resistance to genetically engineered products (GMOs) abroad. The messages describe include a series of public relations strategies, organizing conferences on biotechnology and ways scientists, media and convince farmers of the benefits of GMOs. PR campaign, US diplomats were ordered to improve the negative perception of biotechnology in many ways. In Hong Kong, even schoolchildren were the target audience. "Between 2007 and 2009, each diplomatic post was dedicated in the world to pursue an active agenda on biotechnology that promotes biotechnology, encourages the export of GMOs and advocating for policies and laws that promote biotechnology," the report states. "The US Department of Foreign Affairs sees the promotion of biotechnology as" science diplomacy, but it has much more like business diplomacy in function of the biotechnology industry. "" Biotechnology is a very controversial topic, even here in the US, which is currently in more than twenty states are proposals churchill war rooms to make mandatory labeling of GM food, "said Darcey O'Callaghan of Food & Water Watch." How can it be a central theme in American foreign policy? "Policies affecting the US State Department things did not only concerned with public relations, but also led active opposition to proposed legislation churchill war rooms in the countries that seek to prohibit or to perform churchill war rooms a labeling requirement in GMOs. In some posts is even talk of sanctions against countries that import of GMOs ward. The lobbying campaign was furthermore explicitly specific churchill war rooms businesses for the better. In 7 percent of the individual companies were named, and in most cases were Monsanto. "The US market is virtually saturated with GM seeds," the report churchill war rooms states. "The companies need the US State Department to more countries, forcing farmers more and more consumers churchill war rooms to accept their products, grow and eat."
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