President Clinton, according to this story, made clear last week his unequivocal belief in the federal regulatory process which okayed genetically modified crops such as Bt corn, Bt cotton and Roundup Ready soybeans for use by farmers.

In an interview in Arkansas, Clinton was quoted as telling farm broadcasters, "All of these things have been reviewed by the appropriate authorities. Our goal with the Europeans is to get them to commit unambiguously to making decisions with GMOs based on science. The United States is not about to sell other people, or feed its own people, food that we think is dangerous. We would never, ever do that. But we have to give the Europeans a chance to look at it. But it's got to be done on a science basis, because you know, you know yourself that I would never permit an American child to eat anything that I thought was unsafe. If we had any reason, based on our own scientific reviews to question this, we would question it. So all we want the Europeans to do is to have the same kind of scientific approach. If we get there, we'll work through this GMO thing and it'll all come out just fine."

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