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Re: Hazards of Genetic Engineering: Resources



In message <01bbc3b3$9bc8a1c0$89d0d6cc@masher>
        "Mike Asher" <masher@tusc.net> writes: 

> Joe Toth <jtoth@fairfield.com> wrote:
> > Please check out the Natural Law Party's latest press release on this
> subject--
> > "Genetically Engineered Foods are Becoming Hot Political Issue"--at the
> Natural
> > Law Party web site:  http://www.natural-law.org  where you may also link
> to the
> > following articles:
> > 

> I pulled this off the Natural Law website.  Truly, I never expected them to
> take such a Luddite, fear-mongering position:

> "When genetic engineers play around with the most intimate structures of
> natural organisms, their genetic blueprints, their actions are as dangerous
> as those of nuclear physicists, when they rip apart the finest subatomic
> structures of the atom which lead to the potential for nuclear destruction.
> Although the poisonous effects of genetic engineering on our food and
> environment are creeping and silent, the destruction to life that they are
> bringing will, in the long run, be like a biological nuclear blast."

> Talk about yellow journalism!   More on this later.

I'm inclined to agree that this is a bit extreme. Like all 
technologies, it can be used for good or ill. Some medical uses could 
well be for good. Monsanto and CalGene's uses are for profit - not a 
good way to ensure a safe and sustainable future.

There's a good series of articles about Monsanto's Roundup Ready 
soybeans in 'The Food Magazine', tel. (UK) +44 171 628 7774.

-- 
Bry Lynas
Science writer; Science Correspondent for OneWorld Online 
<http://www.oneworld.org/>


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