On today's morning edition, the report on American objections to European hysteria against genetically modified crops was a bit slanted. I heard a college professor claim that the only Asian country that permitted genetically modified crops was the Phillipines. Not so. According to New Scientist, China's genetically modified crops are proving a success:

IT'S not what campaigners against genetically modified crops want to hear. Not only are GM plants taking over China's rice paddies and cotton fields, but millions of poor farmers are benefiting as a result, according to a survey of the country's GM crop programme, the largest outside the US.

That's a pretty big mistake.