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Aliens in the voters list

  • 30/07/1998

on june 7, 1998, Swiss citizens voted in favour of research in genetic engineering. The biotechnology industry has not stopped smirking since. To the environment organisations, at the end of two years of campaigning against genetic engineering, this has come as a rude shock.

The Swiss vote is relevant in more ways than one. It was a first