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frankenfood

“In 1992, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided to allow American companies to market genetically modified foods. That decision prompted Paul Lewis, an English professor at Boston College, to write a letter to the New York Times in which he decried what he called "Frankenfood," an innovation as misguided (in Lewis' view) as Victor Frankenstein's creation of his monster. Since then, the word has spread like wildfire: a Google search for "Frankenfood" on the Internet returns over 84,000 hits, and it appears in a book title, The Frankenfood Myth, published in 2004.”

Mark Morton, dans la chronique Ort of the week sur le site internet du magazine américain Gastronomica.