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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. ------ 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 http://tinyurl.com/o63ruj http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm |
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