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Drug Making Genes Added To Corn Jump To Soya
Anonymous Cowdog writes "Google News turned up a scary item today: Apparently, genetically altered corn, designed not to repel pests or withstand bad weather, but rather to grow pharmecuticals (for diabetes and diarrhea) has been accidentally mixed with soy plants in the field, resulting in 500,000 bushels of contaminated soybeans being quarantined by the US FDA. Ooops. Here's the story, and here's another story about the same case. The company who brought us this nice event is called ProdiGene. Looks like they're also working on an edible AIDS vaccine (kinda makes sense, eat Tofu, enjoy free love!) Now, I was thinking, will our government protect us from doom-by-hand-me-down-genes? and on a hunch (honest!) I did this google search for keywords ProdiGene and "george w bush". Result? A not so reassuring article."
Off course I didn't RTFA, but I guess it says that Bush ate a lot of genetically altered corn. That sure explains a lot
"Son, in a sporting event, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get" - Homer J. Simpson
Those Fritos! They may grow you a second head.
Perhaps they were trying to solve the "whole kernel effect" problem ...
See, all of you people were over-reacting! Genetically modifying crops is perfectly safe and we understand all of the ramifications of everything we are doing. I mean sure there was a leap from corn to soy beans, but that's well within tolerances. Now, if the gentic modifications had jumped to say, badgers, then that would be something to have concern about. As it now stands this just demonstrates that all precautions are being taken and that we are perfectly safe.
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So that's why my mouth feels so well digested after a hard night of the good old vodka fueled binge'n'purge fun!
Homer:this corn looks normal to me
Marge:That's baby corn
Homer: WHAAAAT?!?!!
Lisa: Mom...my potato is eating my carrot
$cat
You know, when I search for stuff on Google, I don't append "george w bush" to it - not ever.
WTF? Why would you do that?!
You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline.
Just send a couple swarms of these grasshoppers to eat up all the mutant crops. Of course, getting rid of the grasshoppers would become a problem. But, those biotech companies can always just make some mutant lizards.
way cool, man, and i'm sure any survivor will love the USA, and will be very eager to learn to "fly" a 747.
i had a sig, once..
Sorry for replying as an Anonymous Coward
You should be apologizing for posting as "Ann Coulter" instead. Eeeeeeew.
I agree, is slashdot getting so hard up for advertising revenue, that they are going to continue to used headline that wouldn't even make through the National Enquirer's editorial board?
What realy happened was alarming enough to get a lot of reads without making it sound like an experiment gene jumped between two different and unrelated species.
What's next, BatBoy run over by a truck or CmdrTaco's bodily orifaces probed by space aliens?
Apocalypse Cancelled, Sorry, No Ticket Refunds
5. ???
6. Profit!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Send lawyers, guns, and money!
Monsanto -- making things "Greener than You Think"
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Jurassic Park was a MOVIE, and before that, a NOVEL.
Badly written ones at at that.
Perhaps you're a little sketchy on the concept of "fiction".
For future reference, Gattaca and The Matrix were bad science fiction as well.
Cute. Considering that arsenic is an element, that means they would need to perform either nuclear fusion or fission in order to create it. Now that would be something to see.
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Looks like they're also working on an edible AIDS vaccine (kinda makes sense, eat Tofu, enjoy free love!)
/. readers would take the safe food.
given the choice I think most
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