frankenfood not polite
Frankenstein foods not polite

Yet such "Frankenfood" is anathema to the very people who are the strongest proponents of organic food.

In the end, scare stories about "Frankenfood" made the industry a pariah in much of the world.

(See frankenfood.) Proponents also ridiculed the cost estimates of the law brought by the measure's opponents.

This was the hydroponic monoculture logic-resistant kudzu-gene Frankenfood kind.

In an interview, Conko described Frankenfood Myth as follows:

(See the metaphor of FrankenFood by Paul Lewis.)

Todd Gray, the chef and an owner of Equinox in Washington, described transgenic fish as "Frankenfood."

(See frankenfood.)

"Frankenfood Landscape: Where Are We Going?"

He co-authored The Frankenfood Myth with Gregory Conko.

The term "Frankenfood" has become a battle cry of the European side in the US-EU agricultural trade war.

Frankenstein or Franken- is sometimes used as a prefix to imply artificial monstrosity as in "frankenfood", a politically charged name for genetically manipulated foodstuffs.

Paul Lewis, a professor of English at Boston College, invented the word Frankenfood ("genetically modified food") in a letter to The Times in 1992.

Foreword to The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution.

In a letter to the editor of The New York Times, Paul Lewis of Newton Center, Mass., called genetically altered food "Frankenfood."

British newspapers routinely call ingredients from genetically altered plants "Frankenfood," and pollsters say just 1 percent of Britons think that genetically modifying plants has any value at all.

To the Editor: If only the organic food producers would listen to the voice of reason regarding the irrationality of the "Frankenfood" fear ("Facing Biotech Foods").

The Frankenfood Myth by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko takes a long, hard look at both the new agricultural biotechnology and the policy debate surrounding it."

Genetically modified chow is in there as Frankenfood, still capitalized in honor of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the ghost of Mary Shelley will be pleased to learn.

Monsanto had been dogged by bad press related to various aspects of its former chemical and current biotechnological businesses, called "Monsatan" and its GE products dubbed "Frankenfood".

The Bridle of Frankenfood The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times lead with the adoption in Montreal of an international trade agreement on genetically altered food products.

And this is one case in which Britain is truly European: the local furor over GM food - commonly referred to here as "Frankenfood" - would have done even the French proud.

To the Editor: The uncritical promotion of "The Frankenfood Myth" in the Personal Health column "Facing Biotech Foods Without the Fear Factor" (Jan. 11) is too one-sided.

But public sentiment in much of Europe, successfully stoked by environmental groups, is now so fiercely opposed to genetically altered food that in Austria, for example, politicians have won elections by vowing to keep "Frankenfood" at bay.

"I hear it called 'Frankenstein foods,' but what damage has it done?"

American farmers lost some $200 million in corn sales to Europe last year because of the backlash over "Frankenstein foods."

Public opinion has in fact expressed its reservations about the development of 'Frankenstein foods' on several occasions and its desire for healthy and natural food.

The language was interpreted by anti-GM campaigners as an attempt to try to downgrade the importance of the arguments against the so-called "Frankenstein foods".

When Mr. Shapiro was in San Francisco last year, he was hit in the face with a pie thrown by someone protesting "Frankenstein foods."

But the very strategy that has propelled the biotechnology revolution on the farm continues to drag down a company that some in Europe have labeled a producer of "Frankenstein Foods."

Seldom in human history has a technology with such exciting possibilities seemed less popular than genetic modification of foods - a k a "Frankenstein foods" in the British tabloids - is today.

Makers of genetically modified seeds have taken a beating this year in Europe, where critics have sabotaged test plots of altered crops and have fostered widespread distrust of what they call Frankenstein foods.

The most stunning setback for Monsanto came earlier this year in Europe, where hostile, and even virulent, opposition to what some dubbed "Frankenstein foods" led the European Union to slow approval of genetically modified crops.