It’s not clear why the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) chose San Francisco, home of “Protesters R Us” and “Rent-a-Mob,” for its annual convention this week. But one thing is for sure, the byproduct has been a measure of enlightenment, particularly concerning the protesters. These are 1960s re-enactors whose activities reveal more about their own contradictions than the merits or demerits of biotechnology. At the event this week, they showed up in far fewer numbers, in the low hundreds, a steep drop from the two to three thousand protesting last year in Sacramento.
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Food Fight: The Bogus Protests of Biotechnology
Posted by: Sonia Arrison June 11, 2004 06:00 AMIt’s not clear why the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) chose San Francisco, home of “Protesters R Us” and “Rent-a-Mob,” for its annual convention this week. But one thing is for sure, the byproduct has been a measure of enlightenment, particularly concerning the protesters. These are 1960s re-enactors whose activities reveal more about their own contradictions than the merits or demerits of biotechnology. At the event this week, they showed up in far fewer numbers, in the low hundreds, a steep drop from the two to three thousand protesting last year in Sacramento.