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Are Europeans really antagonistic to biotech?

Nature Biotechnology volume 24, pages 393–395 (2006)Cite this article

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Surveys of public attitudes to biotech in advanced societies rely on analyses of representative population samples and of media coverage. A common conclusion from these analyses is that the public is strongly opposed to biotech applications in food and agriculture ('green biotech') but less opposed (or more ambivalent) to applications in biomedicine ('red biotech'). In no region is this truer than in Europe, where the prevailing assumption of scientists and policymakers is that the public is generally antagonistic to biotech.

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Figure 1: Mean agreement score for the six biotech applications.

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