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Scotts Testing Genetically Modified Grass

Posted by michael on Saturday April 10, 2004 @04:48AM from the roll-the-concrete-over-it,-to-try-to-keep-it-back dept.

Caseyscrib writes "There is an article on Yahoo! News that talks about how Scotts is testing a genetically modified version of creeping bentgrass, popular on golf course greens and fairways, that will be resistant to a common weed-killing chemical. Environmentalists have long opposed bioengineered crops of any kind, and fear that '...if it was to escape onto public land, we wouldn't know how to control it.' It is now in the final stages of approval."

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Re:How to control it... by lambent · 2004-04-10 05:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Did you watch Penn & Teller's Bullshit, too?
Re:Un-american? by snarkh · 2004-04-10 06:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I am sorry but your comment is un-American.
Yahoo... by Lorean · 2004-04-10 06:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Yahoo! your number one source for authentic news!
Re:Un-american? by entrigant · 2004-04-10 07:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

As an american, I am. However in this day and age a person like me who doesn't support bush, the war in iraq, big business, and condones personal privacy and freedom.. I've been called unamerican so many times I've quite frankly become desensitized to it.