1. In accordance with common custom, the abbreviation “GM”will be used to mean both “genetic modification”and “genetically modified.”We have defined GM as the insertion of pieces of heritable material from one individual to another, or the removal of genes from an individual.
2. HRH The Prince of Wales, “Reith Lecture 2000,”in M. Ruse and D. Castle .(2002). (eds.), Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Biotechnology (Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 11–15.
3. E.g., Richard Dawkins, “An Open Letter to Prince Charles,”in M. Ruse and D. Castle (eds.), Genetically Modified Foods:Debating Biotechnology, (Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2002), 16–19; Gregory E. Pence, Designer Food: Mutant Harvest or Breadbasket of the World? (Cambridge University Press, London, 2002).
4. Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko, “Precaution without principle,”in M. Ruse and D. Castle (eds.), Genetically Modified Foods: Debating Biotechnology (Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2002), 292–296.
5. James, C. Preview: Global Status of Commercialized Transgenic Crops 2003. ISAAA Briefs no. 30 (ISAAA, Ithaca, NY, 2003).