The Amsterdam-based pressure group Greenpeace has mobilized a new set of local fronts in its battle against the Philippine science community. Our readers will recall that Greenpeace and Filipino scientists led by Dr. Emil Javier and his fellow researchers from the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) are locked in a protracted war over the use of modern biotechnology in agriculture.

Dr. Javier and his associates are introducing our farmers to the world of pest-resistant, insecticide-free crop varieties through biotechnology. Greenpeace has blocked this effort for more than a decade now. It used propaganda tactics to scare our farmers and prevent them from using this crop variety. Later, they resorted to destroying trial farms planted with biotech crops.

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