Brazil: Internet poll on biotechnology reveals gender gap

Transgenic is a word easily associated with something negative, which went wrong or is bad for people. Based on this consensus, researcher Leila Oda, current National Biosafety Association [Anbio] president, coordinated two studies on the subject. The result, exclusively obtained by Correio, shows t...

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Published inBBC Monitoring Americas - Political p. 1
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published London BBC Worldwide Limited 21.08.2001
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Oda, Leila
BRAZIL
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Summary:Transgenic is a word easily associated with something negative, which went wrong or is bad for people. Based on this consensus, researcher Leila Oda, current National Biosafety Association [Anbio] president, coordinated two studies on the subject. The result, exclusively obtained by Correio, shows the people's ignorance about biotechnology. Concluded in 1999, the study was administered in Sao Paulo, Rio and Porto Alegre supermarkets. Six hundred people answered the questions. The best result came from Porto Alegre, where more than 60 per cent of the people knew the term biotechnology. To Leila Oda, the explanation for the Rio Grande do Sul capital's greater knowledge lies in the fact that the subject of transgenics, particularly genetically modified soybeans, had just burst out in the media in 1998. State newspapers were publishing detailed reports on the subject, its advantages and disadvantages.