vision2020
Re: the good food fight
re:altered genes
Its not just the plants but the soil too.
I might be wrong but isn't part of this type of engineering also designed to
make the plant more resistant to certain herbicide that may otherwise tend
to kill them .... What do you know Monsanto sells herbicides.
I don't like the idea of growing a plant in soil that gets a fix from some
concoction thats so powerful it'll burn down the house. Made by some dude/et
boiling it down in their kitchen and you can't get it any where else.
Its a dependency case if I ever saw one.
Here is a question:
How many new adaptations have weeds, critters or fungi made for every change
we make? My money is on plenty.
Cooperating with nature is one thing. Competing with it is another.
Whoa there.
Giant red wood wheat fields!!! crying feed me feed me.
Giant redwood Canadian thistle!!!!blowin in the wind.(just kidding)
We can make changes by mimicking nature but who is in charge.
You can measure twice but cut once.
Dave
>From: Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>
>To: "Travis Tonn" <vart@turbonet.com>, "Ken Medlin" <dev-plan@moscow.com>,
> <scooke@uidaho.edu>, "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: the good fight
>Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:14:08 -0800
>
>At 08:51 AM 12/17/1999 -0800, Travis Tonn wrote:
>
>> I don't understand the recent concerns over genetically altered
>>plants
>>that have superior traits to unmodified plants. ... So what are the
>>concerns?
>
>Here's just one concern. Take a shellfish gene, put it into an ear of
>corn. It may improve some traits in corn, but it may also kill my
>unwitting sister, who is allergic to shellfish. There are documented cases
>of allergen proteins hopping from the donor species into the recipient
>species. And yet genetic engineers claim that their products do not need
>to be tested or labeled because "we're doing the same thing that nature has
>been doing forever."
>
>Here's another concern. Genes apparently do migrate between different
>species naturally. There is at least one documented case of a
>transplanting gene migrating to wild plants. So if you are trying to
>create a "super wheat," you may be successful, but you could also
>unintentionally create a super weed.
>
>There are plenty of other documented problems with genetic engineering. I
>do not consider this technology to be "tinkering" with nature. The issues
>& potential problems involved suggest that this is a much more radical
>alteration of the collective gene pool.
>
>
>
>
>Bob Hoffmann
>229 East C St., Suite B
>Moscow, ID 83843 USA
>Phone: (208) 883-0642
>Fax: 1-800-683-3799
>http://www.alt-escape.com
>
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