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Why the fear of GM Crops?
wparrott wrote: wrote: Indeed. One is forever hopeful. Here's further confirmation that it would be financial suicide to grow GM wheat... For once, I totally agree with Marcus. The limitations are due to social issues that influence market forces-- not to real safety issues "Safety issues are not real" That is the attitude of the industry and of some of the US public that repeats this propaganda like a lobotomized Parrot. In November of 2002 the USDA ordered the disposal (destruction or diversion to non food uses -maybe to put the stuff for sale to an unsuspecting third world country-) of half a million bushels of potentially contaminated beans. The company involded? ProdiGene, a texas based company. What does ProdiGene make to generate such response? well, it makes oral vaccines! ProdiGene conducted trials of corn that makes vaccines for transmissible gastroenteritis virus. The problem is that grain elevators very often mix grains. One day they move corn, next day beans, next day corn again. The geniuses at ProdiGene forgot that little detail! Well, they also forgot that plants have sex. And plants like corn have the most promiscuous sex of all crop plants! contamination is no problem when the objective is to contaminate! I wonder what US university generated such moraly dead imbeciles! But hey, this is the Bush era. Let's keep things secret: Neither ProdiGene nor the government will disclose exactly what genetic modification the errant corn contained, but Anthony Laos, the company's chief executive officer, says it was a protein for "persistent digestive health conditions." only a diareea vaccine? or is it an HIV vaccine?: Just imagine: HIV antibody positives all around the country! Here is the quote for my editor. Corn is currently being used in an attempt to genetically engineer an HIV vaccine using a protein from the monkey version of HIV. Imagine people taking an HIV vaccine by eating corn (28). The technology is being developed by Texas-based Prodigene. Young, Emma. 2002. How long before HIV vaccine is growing in a field near you? New Scientist. vol.174. Issue 2339. p13. Like someone said: "If the USDA continues to allow biopharm food crops to be planted, someone is going to get prescription drugs or industrial chemicals in their cornflakes," but, that is exactly the strategy: contaminate, taint, contaminate, n January 2001, Don Westfall, a food industry consultant formerly with Promar International, an American company that advises large food corporations on industry trends and marketing strategies, told the Toronto Star exactly that: "The hope of the industry is that over time the market is so flooded that there's nothing you can do about it. You just sort of surrender." In conclusion, dear parrot, keep reading! http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/6157 .... Biotech supporters claim that GM food is no different than food derived from conventional breeding techniques and that the technology of genetic engineering simply enables scientists to improve crops more quickly and with greater precision. Credible scientists question both claims. Biotechnologists have no control over where the genes they are inserting end up in the modified species' genome, leading one geneticist to dub the technology "genetic randomeering." The location is important, because where the gene ends up -- actually it's a package of several genes, because several different genes are needed to make the technology work -- will determine whether toxic byproducts or allergens are created, or whether the nutritional value of the modified food is altered. The placement of foreign genes can also disrupt the normal functioning of the modified organism. David Schubert, a cell biologist at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, says there is no way to predict these outcomes in advance. He points to one particularly tragic incident to illustrate what can go wrong with genetic engineering. In the late 1980s, Showa Denko, a Japanese chemical company, began producing the amino acid L-tryptophan with genetically engineered bacteria. Unfortunately the modified bacteria also produced a novel amino acid that turned out to be highly toxic, killing 37 people, permanently disabling 1,500 and making more than 5,000 sick. --- Here we are debating again the same stupid technology, migh as well restart puting lead in the gas and paint, or as the Bush administration did, to hell with pesky regulations about arsenic in the water (we might even get UNICEF to advise us in how to poison a nation and how to ignore such pesky problem) |
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