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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / March 2005GM Rice
From: "Robert Cohen" <notmilk@e...> Date: Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:40 am Subject: Dicey Rice Dicey Rice "How many times can a man turn his head, Pretending he just doesn't see?" -Bob Dylan, 1962 Ventria Pharmaceutical company has genetically engineered human genes into grains. Ventria has combined human lysozyme with rice, and have applied to the United States Department of agriculture for permits to plant 204 acres of their genetically modified organism (GMO) this spring in Missouri. One unforeseen problem with new GMO crops is that the winds spread new genes to other plants producing unexpected results. Dylan sang, "The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind..." Ventria attempted to plant their human/rice crop in California in the Spring of 2004, but the publicity and subsequent protest uprooted their plans. This time, their strategy is to keep things low key. Very few Americans are aware of what is going on. That is, until this very moment. In 2002, a team of researchers determined that this new science fiction rice had antibiotic-like properties when fed to baby chickens. Their work was published in the Journal of Nutrition (2002, 132: 1214-1218). The Missouri Department of Agriculture awaits your comments. Please take this opportunity to show the "Show Me" state that human DNA should not be implanted into rice. Email: aginfo@m... Attn: Fred Ferrell, Director Imagine the consequences? Combine one part rice with Condoleezza, and you'll produce a hybrid plant the forever seeks out weapons of mass destruction that go snap, crackle, and pop. Combine one part rice with John Kerry and you get a bitter grain with Heinz-sight. Combine one part rice with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and you get a grain with a soft black exterior containing a hard white interior. Combine one part rice with one part Donald Rumsfeld and the outside of the grain has an easily penetrable exterior coating that you have, not a coating that you wish for. Combine one part rice with one part Bill Clinton, and you end up with the plant kingdom version of Cialis. Combine one part rice with Bill gates, and you create a virtually inedible rice. Each grain requires 64 bytes. Combine one part rice with Barry Bonds, and you create a new grain that denies it was genetically engineered. Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com The fact of the matter is that people have been doing genetic engineering for millenia, ever since man first started breeding and selecting plants. The only difference now is that humans are able to select the genes much more carefully. I will take changing one known gene at a time rather than who knows how many genes when different varieties of plants are crossed. Jeff "The fact of the matter is that people have been doing genetic engineering for millenia" . REALLY!!!? Is that a fact? Then perhaps you point out down through history when flounder genes were spliced into tomatoes; human genes into rice? > "The fact of the matter is that people have been doing genetic > engineering [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Then perhaps you point out down through history when flounder genes > were spliced into tomatoes; human genes into rice? New genetic combinations have been made by humans every since they started doing artificial selection and cross-breeding. I would much rather have a plant with only one known genetic change than a plant with tons of different genetic changes you get when you do cross-breeding. We have been eating GM foods for several years now, without any sign of adverse reactions. Jeff LOLOLOLOL..no adverse reactions? How can you tell? > We have been eating GM foods for several years now, without any sign of > adverse reactions. > > Jeff Where are your peer reviewed studies for your bold statements? >> We have been eating GM foods for several years now, without any sign of > adverse reactions. > > Jeff > Where are your peer reviewed studies for your bold statements? > >>> We have been eating GM foods for several years now, without any sign of >> adverse reactions. >> >> Jeff It is considered appropriate to put your comments below the comments of the previous poster, to make following the thread easier. Below are three cites about the safety of GM foods. You can find additional ones by going to scholar.google.com and search for genetically modified foods. Jeff http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/plantgm/tpj1119.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1 1344340&dopt=Citation http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/318/7183/581 > The fact of the matter is that people have been doing genetic engineering > for millenia, ever since man first started breeding and selecting plants. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > I will take changing one known gene at a time rather than who knows how > many genes when different varieties of plants are crossed. Genetically modified? Yes, true- we are eating genetically modified food for a very long time already.. or since homo sapiens started to settle and grow plants most probably. Every domesticated animal and every plant we "optimized" and crossed with other plants was in fact genetically modified by us. But the big difference is: until now we could not cross a dung beetle with a rice plant.. >> The fact of the matter is that people have been doing genetic engineering >> for millenia, ever since man first started breeding and selecting plants. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > But the big difference is: until now we could not cross a dung beetle with > a rice plant.. While we can import genes from animals to plants, we can;t insert most of the genes of an animal. And, genes have been known to cross species. Viruses and bacteria have been doing this almost forever, at very small rates. Jeff |
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