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."

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[Omkar]

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.

Your title is *Wrong*

[Tom Davies]

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

Go work for Microsoft you fscking FUD merchant.