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To: one_less who wrote (5644)	3/13/2003 5:35:55 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 7720

<<Are GMO beans resistant or not?>> Uh, the bad news is there are no beans resistant to rust as of now. It's being worked on though. << Are they otherwise as practical to grow as the old fashioned kind? >> Shouldn't be any difference. <<Are there alternatives to the bean/corn rotations.>> That's not the problem. It's how much it would spread in one year that's the problem.

To: one_less who wrote (5644)	3/13/2003 6:45:27 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 7720

There is an improvement of a few percentage points on the bottom line for raising high priced GMO crops. The difference is out the window for resistance in a few years because other input costs go up, almost like a person no longer finding certain cheaper anti-biotics helpful. One must appreciate how many unemployable people the ag industry keeps working at universities around the country. The shareholders of Monsanto and others reap huge rewards from the process. One part of the process works something like this. Monsanto comes along and clones "Jewell o the West" making a slightly negligible difference in your cellular structure. Because of the slight difference Monsanto seeks to protect itself from "Jewell o the West" via a process called the patent. Not only does "Jewell of the West" no longer own his own genes, Monsanto will sue "Jewell of the West" for being a patent imitator. This might sound insane but almost identical things have been going on here recently with seed grain growers.

To: one_less who wrote (5644)	3/13/2003 6:51:35 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 7720

Cloned Pig Changes Color By Soh Ji-young Staff Reporter A domestically cloned pig completely changed the color of his coat four months after its birth, a research team of Gyengsang National University said yesterday. Among the five black-skinned and red-haired pigs born in August last year, one of them started turning white from early November last year to become completely white a month later, they said. The five pigs were cloned by the team to produce EPO (erythropoietin), a hormone naturally produced by kidneys, which stimulates the production of red blood cells. The bizarre phenomenon is drawing keen attention from home and abroad as no such case has been reported in the world. All of the somatic cells and egg cells used in the cloning experiment had come from black-skinned and red-haired pigs. The discovery was dealt with in a publication by Tokyo University in Japan and will also be introduced in the ``Zygote¡¯¡¯ journal of Cambridge University in Britain. No other irregularities have been observed in the pig save for the change in color, according to Kim Jin-hoe, the professor who led the research. ``If the phenomenon was sparked by aging, the discovery of the gene that caused this could provide a break-through in research to prevent aging,¡¯¡¯ Kim said. Kim¡¯s research team plans to find out the cause of the color change by comparing the pig¡¯s genetic structure with normal pigs. The pig will be cloned again through reproduction of somatic cells. times.hankooki.com