Industry Financed Propaganda for Young Minds

• New Biotech Propaganda Targets Children -  Peace & Freedom Fall01

• Kids 8-12: Enter the "Food of the Future" Contest!

• Your World - Biotechnology & You - - Biotechnology Institute 2001 (Being freely distributed to schools)

• High school students to follow their double-helix dreams - SF Chronicle 21may01

• ANDi aka 'Jelly Belly' - National Geographic World Magazine (a children's magazine) May01

• Science Teachers Play a Crucial Role - Monsanto Press Release 23mar01

• Environmental Regulation (as seen through the eyes of biotech) - Your World Biotechnology & You Fall94

An Alternative

• Safe Info for Children: For Kids! Tiki's Guide to Genetic Engineering - A more logical precautionary, non-industry view.

mindfully.org note: 
We could find but one example of a kid-safe biotech description. There must be other people in webland who have the expertise to write a truthful description of biotech for children. These young minds must be given the opportunity to read the truth, rather than the industry version.
Are you that person?

If you're the parent of a college student, don't think you're in the clear. 
Industry pretty much owns the universities at this point in time. Professors or researchers who speak the truth find the door being shown to them. 
They also have difficulty finding their next source of funding. In 1998, Novartis bought UC Berkeley's Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Read about it in US News and World Report 26oct98.