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Re: Genetic engineering

Ian,

The following link:

http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/john.rose/

will get you started.  There's links to a lot of garbage here, as well,
but some good information as well.

IIRC, the current list of G/E products are tomatoes, strawberries,
cotton, soy, canola... and perhaps potatoes.  There are probably others
by now.

I don't think that eating a G/E food is the real danger here.  After
all, we are capable of ingesting any number of organic substances and
breaking them into their constituent parts before recombining them into
materials our bodies need.  I think the real danger is in the side
effects.  For example a G/E plant could become a pernicious weed.  Or
perhaps the G/E techniques do not produce a viable plant over the long
term and a catastophic failure could lead to famine.  And some types of
G/E could encourage resistance to Organic pesticides like Bt, robbing
gardeners like me of their best organic defense against caterpillars. 
And I could be wrong: there could be an inherent danger in eating G/E
food.

I wouldn't want to see Duncan's veggie list turn into a forum on G/E
foods, but the issue is of some concern to many people... especially the
kind of people who raise vegetable gardens!

Steve  (Maritime...)


Ian Gill wrote:
> 
> Some time ago someone in this group expressed concern over US food label
> laws regarding genetic enginnering. I am grateful to that person because up
> until then I was oblivious to what is happening. Now I am very alarmed as
> New Zealand appears to be gearing up to adopt the same US food label
> standards. I am somewhat amazed to find a general acceptance or
> indifference to the label laws in the US. Can anyone tell me if any sector
> of the US public are opposing the label law. Forcing people to eat GM food
> would seem to me to be a hell of a human rights violation.
> 
> Regards  Ian Gill
>                          Westland
>                          New Zealand
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