Gazette's Hero of the Month for April 1998

This month's award goes to Malcolm Walker, founder and CEO of Britain's Iceland supermarket chain. Walker told British radio this week that Iceland will break ranks with the nation's supermarkets by refusing to allow genetically altered foods imported from the U.S. to be sold under Iceland's store brand.

Walker said: "Consumers are being conned." The use of genetically modified ingredients, he said, "is probably the most significant and potentially dangerous development in food production this century."

It takes courage to go against the current. We salute Mr. Walker.

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