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Drug Making Genes Added To Corn Jump To Soya

Posted by Hemos on from the look-over-there dept.

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."

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  1. Re:wtf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Well, with the astonishing conservative right-wing takeover fuelled by crime-terrorists-immigrants FUD both in Europe and now in the US, we can no longer silently watch by as our rights to our bodies (drugs, GM-free food, abortion, border free emigration/immigration), minds (freethinking, atheism) and souls (neo-paganism, wicca,...) are slowly eroded by the oppressive christian/nationalist right. George W Bush said it in a nutshell: "No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.".

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  2. the basics by MoceanWorker · · Score: 0, Troll

    anything genetically modified should be enough to scare anyone.. and should make someone think twice before consuming it

    btw.. if you want to eat healthy and live a productive life, i suggest reading any book written by Dr. Andrew Weil

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  3. Re:ever ehard of cross polinisation ? by Stonehand · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps these "lot of people" should find themselves ANY evidence of a gene crossing plant species. After all, plants have been near other plants for, oh... thousands of years. If there were genes hopping around, sooner or later some agriculturalist should have noticed a difference. There's absolutely nothing about a modified gene that would make it more mobile.

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  4. Pick One by Omkar · · Score: 1, Troll

    1. Mass Starvation 2. A major plague (>2 billion dead) 3. GM Crops We don't have much of a choice. In the long run, natural systems will not be efficient enough to supply humanity. Until we begin to colonize space, we need GM crops to eat.

  5. EXPLAINATION PLEASE!! by JonKatzIsAnIdiot · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, I am shouting ...

    Could someone out there PLEASE explain to me how using genetic manipulation to produce an edible AIDS vaccine 'kinda makes sense' while using the same techniques to produce food that is resistant to disease and insects certain to lead to the end of life as we know it?

    Really - is it too much to expect a little consistency from the leftists out there?

  6. Your title is *Wrong* by Tom+Davies · · Score: 1, Troll

    The genes did not jump anywhere. The plants were planted in the same field.

    Go work for Microsoft you fscking FUD merchant.

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