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Frankenfood (named after
Mary Shelley's character in
her novel
Frankenstein) is a label
of disapproval applied to
food products deemed to have
been produced by unnatural—and by
implication, obscene—means. The
term was coined in
1992 by
Paul Lewis, an English
professor at
Boston College who used the
word in a letter he wrote to the
New York Times in response
to the decision of the
US Food and Drug Administration
to allow companies market
genetically modified food.
The term is applied to the use
of
genetically modified organisms
in food production, a common
practice in the
United States but widely
rejected in parts of
Europe. "Frankenfood" has
become a battle cry of the
European side in the
US-EU agricultural trade war.
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