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Gary Woods wrote:

Wildbilly wrote:

Well, I kicked the
topic around with a couple of biologists and they thought that GMO soy
would have been pretty hard not to recognize, so Schmeiser may have
known that he had something different.


The case that I heard about (at the Seed Saver's meet a few years ago) was
canola aka rape, rather than soy. Schmeiser claimed that he did indeed
save seeds, but they were from his fields, and if GMO markers were there,
it was cross-contamination and not his fault.
What really needs to be decided is if anybody owns those genes once they
escape into the wild.
Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

I sit corrected, canola it is ;O)

The courts have ruled that if your seeds have the Monsanto added genetic
material, they are Monsanto's property. If Round up ready corn pollutes
traditional Mexican corn, the corn belongs to Monsanto. End of story.

(Rant Mode Engaged)
The jury may be out on glyphosate as an environmental contaminant but
that it it leads to under-productive monocultures that require more and
more of the herbicide to suppress increasingly resistant weeds, that the
Cabbage Mosaic Virus inserted with altering DNA has the ability to turn
on dormant genes, and that "spliceosomes" mistake alien transfer-RNA for
more familiar encoded amino acids, and produce unique proteins (
allergens) are not in doubt.

That our "new" war mongering President appointed a GMO enthusiast as
Secretary of Agriculture will give you an idea of our problems.

http://www.gene.ch/genet.html ------------------


VILSACK, GROSS WEIGH IN ON BIOTECH DECISION

DES MOINES, Iowa - Gov. Tom Vilsack was cited as writing in a letter to
the
Biotechnology Industry Organization that a decision by a biotechnical
industry group not to grow genetically engineered corn for
pharmaceutical
purposes in states such as Iowa is "a dangerous precedent," adding that
"I
feel this decision by for a pharma-crop ban is a knee-jerk reaction that
is
not fully warranted by the scientific evidence." BIO was cited as saying
this week that its members had agreed not to grow pharmaceutical crops
in
states where it could contaminate neighboring crops intended for human
consumption. That includes Iowa, and Vilsack reacted quickly, dashing
off a
letter asking the group for a clarification of its policy. Vilsack was
quoted as saying, "I support food safety and security, but this decision
appears to be overreaching. It seems more like an effort to exclude the
nation's most productive farmers, small businesses and university
researchers from this emerging industry." Vilsack has said the state
could
have a bright future in developing genetically engineered crops for the
pharmaceutical industry.

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At least when there was a Republican in the White House, it was easy to
know who the bad guys were.

Our "Robber Barons" just up graded their flak and you can be sure that
all that will come out of health care reform is mandatory insurance
coverage, and a lack of interest on the part of the citizens to revisit
the problem anytime soon.

(Rant Mode Disengaged)
--
"When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist."
-Archbishop Helder Camara

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