"Hua Kul" wrote in message
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"Gordon Couger" wrote in message
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In article , Moosh:]
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Thanks Gordon, good point.
Not thet there's much more we can do about it than what we are doing.
If you want to convert a sheep or a bacteria to produce a bioactive
material such as a protein as a theraputic agent the way foreward is
not
to breed or mutate but GM a species. I.e. create a self replicating
factory. GM food has the potential to generate unwanted materials that
mutation and breeding cannot.
Unwanted material in foodstuffs will be the rare hazard that we wont
recognise until too late. Sadly whole populations will consume; not
just
the ill for whom the risk would ba acceptable.

Due to testing in GM food stuffs we are much less likely to get
unintended
hazards in food stuffs than we are in in normally bred food stuffs.

Another naif who seems to believe that governments and their
regulations will save us. It was a British government regulation
requiring cattle to be heavily dosed with organophosphate pesticides
which may have triggered the BSE outbreak. See Mark Purdy's research.

An out break that effects 120 peoples and 600,000 cows. Those are similar to
the deaths by lighting over the same period in the south west US. Why don't
you do something about he deaths from TB, whooping cough and preventable
diseases that are killing people in the UK that can be control for a
fraction of the cost of the news on BSE in a week.

Gordon