ABSTRACT
The agricultural biotechnology industry has portrayed its technical advances as essential for achieving global security. This self portrayal can serve the public relations purposes of marginalizing political opposition and minimizing state regulation. However, the industry's language is more than merely rhetorical; it diagnoses an environmental insecurity which defines the problem for biotechnologists to solve. What does its Research and Development (R&D) agenda take for granted? How does it prescribe the future?
