On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:47:12 +0000, Marcus Williamson
wrote:


You should drop the contention that GM foods are "untested". It makes
you look very foolish and/or dishonest (and unfortunately all of us
who have concerns about GM agriculture are tarred by association).

Can you show me references to safety tests (for example, long term
animal feeding tests) which have been carried out on GM soya or GM
maize?

Ah, now these sorts of long-term safety tests are exactly the sort of
thing that many of us are concerned about with respect to GM. There
may well be problems that only show up after long-term exposure
despite the testing of GM crops performed to date.

Please choose your words more carefully. There are indeed specific
concerns about GM crops that need to be addressed through specific
kinds of tests. But in post after post, you simply have been making
bald statements that GM crops have "never been through any safety
testing", which is obviously false and makes you look silly.


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But in post after post, you simply have been making
bald statements that GM crops have "never been through any safety
testing"

This is the truth.

Ask the FDA or EPA what tests they have done on the GM crops approved
here, for example:

24 July 1995 - USDA rules genetically engineered herbicide-tolerant
cotton safe to grow (USDA)
13 July 1995 - USDA rules genetically engineered cotton safe to grow
(USDA)
13 July 1995 - USDA rules Genetically Engineered corn safe to grow
(USDA)
22 June 1995 - USDA rules on Genetically Engineered tomato lines
(USDA)
24 March 1995 - USDA rules on Genetically Engineered potato (USDA)
10 March 1995 - USDA to rule on Genetically Engineered corn (USDA)
1 March 1995 - USDA to rule on Genetically Engineered corn (USDA)

There were no tests done on any of these crops, only "assessments" of
data provided by the manufacturer...

regards
Marcus

Marcus Williamson wrote in message
...

But in post after post, you simply have been making
bald statements that GM crops have "never been through any safety
testing"

This is the truth.

you haven't produced any evidence of no-gm crops having been through
safety testing

this is the truth


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