Re: Bug Free AG Plant!

In a message dated 7/30/99 10:53:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Elkskin@aol.com 
writes:

>  Group,
>  
>        I read something very interesting in my (just received) 1999 Seed 
>  Savers Exchange Summer Edition Flyer,  It seems a molecular biologist has 
>  come up with a new potato variety called "New Leaf" that produces it's own 
>  insecticide, one bite from a bug on this plant and it's doomed! This plant 
>  was created by using some genes from Bt. (Bacillus thuringiensis) an 
organic 
> 
>  insecticide, (WE NEED THIS!) imagine, a bug proof AG plant! Anyway it was 
a 
>  rather long and technical article explaining how everything was done and 
the 
> 
>  outcomes, my scanner doesn't work well on small print so if someone has 
one 
>  that does I could send it by snail mail and that person could e-mail it to 
>  interested parties,  (Harold) I'll send a copy directly to you if your 
>  interested, just e-mail your address.-----(Elkskin)
>  

They did this recently (with the BT gene process) with corn, which was bigger 
news than anything else here. There is big controversy over it though, some 
people saying that it is dangerous to genetically mess with food. They also 
mentioned that overseas in Europe, they all think we are insane. But we have 
been doing stuff with corn for years (the se and sh2 genes and all that). 
They did find out that the pollen of the BT enhanced corn was deadly if 
butterflies ate it, and who knows what else. So who knows what it would do to 
the pollen of pumpkins, or the leaves, or anything else. Messing with nature 
genetically can be dangerous, unlike messing with it by enhancing natural 
selection, which is basically what we are doing to get pumpkins over 1000 
pounds!



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