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The best-selling American author Bill Bryson is a devoted Anglophile who has written lovingly about life in Britain: “The fact is that this is still the best place in the world for most things--to post a letter, go for a walk, watch television, buy a book, venture out for a drink, go to a museum, use the bank, get lost, seek help, or stand on a hillside and take in the view.”
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The same might be said of “contamination,” the latest buzzword among the enemies of biotechnology. It’s in the eye of the beholder, too--but the people who claim to see it clearly need to have their eyes examined.
It sounded like a sick April Fool’s joke when I first heard the news. A few weeks ago, the government of Angola refused to accept humanitarian assistance in the form of biotech food. A shipment of 19,000 tons of corn from the United States was cancelled, even though their people are starting to go hungry. The reason----some of it might have been genetically enhanced. 
When a new Swedish beer hit the European market earlier this year, activists from the radical group Greenpeace did their best to make sure nobody would drink it. Like a bunch of mobbed-up racketeers, they pursued delivery trucks around Copenhagen and urged storeowners not to stock Kenth beer, as it’s called. “We stayed up all night printing materials to hand out at the stores and arranging chase cars,” one of them confessed in the Wall Street Journal.
Why is America so prosperous? If somebody ever writes a book answering that question, the author will have to include a chapter on free trade
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