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"Mr President, the rapid advance in the field of genetic technology has understandably unsettled a number of our constituents. We cannot always put our finger on what it is that we are disquieted about, but somewhere deep down it feels wrong, for example to take an anti-freezing gene from an Arctic fish and put it in a tomato or whatever.
I am not sure though that public policy ought to reflect inchoate prejudice. I am not saying that prejudice is invalid. I am enough of a Burkean to recognise that public feeling does not always need to be strictly rational, but the key thing for us is to allow people to choose. If the European Union repeatedly stands in the way of advances in technology, not on the basis of science but based on a sense of giving people creepiness, then we take away the basic responsibility of each consumer to be able to make a judgement about what is in his or her interest."@en1
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