Biotechnology, like information technology, is becoming a wave of the future. I have just gotten a listing of FACTS and FALLACIES about biotechnology, and let me pass these on to the readers, just to keep them informed of what biotechnology is all about. 

Here they are:

FALLACY #1: Altering the genetic make-up of the foods we eat is inherently dangerous. We do not know whether these foods might prove to be harmful years from now. And releasing genetically altered organisms to the environment will cause havoc.
FACT: Humans have been altering the genetic character of foods since the dawn of agriculture. Some 8,000 years ago, the Indians in Mexico selected and cultivated a mutated form of maize to develop the modern corn plant. This was not a transgenic operation, but it was an act of genetic preference that caused widespread cultivation of a plant with a different genetic composition.

FALLACY #2: The testing of new genetically altered crops is inadequate. Multinational corporations are exporting these crops to the less developed countries, which are less able to resist their power and influence.
FACT: All genetically altered organisms undergo stringent testing. Virtually all countries importing genetically modified organisms (GMO) crops are developing their own institutions for scientific review of these crops. The Biosafety Protocol establishes an international mechanism to enhance this scrutiny.

FALLACY #3: Developing countries are being used by the multinational corporations as biotech laboratories.
FACT: "The greatest 'biotech laboratory' is probably the United States, followed closely by Canada. Biotech crops have been sown, produced, and processed into a wide variety of products in North America for almost ten years. Over 300 million Americans and Canadians have been consuming biotech food products for years, without any known ill effects.

FALLACY #4: Allowing uninhibited genetic modification of crops and other forms of life harms biodiversity.
FACT: There is no scientific evidence supporting a natural, uncontrolled takeover of a genetic species by one that has been altered. The cultivation of altered crops will continue to be closely monitored. Cross-pollination, said to be the likely cause of an eventual reproductive takeover, has been shown in test after test to be an exaggerated factor.

FALLACY #5: Hunger is caused by poverty and landlessness, not by lack of food in the world.
FACT: Who can argue that a greater availability of more nutritional food at lower cost would have anything other than beneficial effects on the world's poor?