The Rice with Human Genes
March 9, 2007
The following information was gotten off the web from the Daily Mail on March 5, 07.
The first GM (genetically modified) food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The rice’s producers, California-based Ventria Bioscience, has been given preliminary approval to grow this GM rice on more than 3,000 acres in Kansas. The company plans to harvest the proteins and use them in drinks, desserts, yoghurts and muesli bars.
Not surprisingly, the news has provoked horror among the GM critics and consumer groups on both sides of the Atlantic.
As well as the contamination fears there are serious ethical concerns about such a fundamental interference with the building blocks of life.
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Why would ANYONE want to put human genes in any food? That’s just crazy!! Why do this? To what end? Reminds me of total mixed rations…mad cow disease…I always said that when I see cows eating each other, I would be okay with it! Cows eat grasses! A good example of things the average person has no clue about. When you tell people these things they act like you have two heads!! I’d say it’s unbelievable, but once you start learning about modern “farming” you realize that things have been unbelievable for the last 30 years or so!!