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To: LindyBill who wrote (98835)	5/22/2003 6:15:11 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<Well, I see you know the environmental "Litany" on GM food, TE. >> GM food is good. Great actually. Grains that don't need spraying with pesticides, tomatoes that don't rot quickly. All foods grown today are GMO, it's just been done with selective breeding in the past. Monsanto has developed yellow rice and will give the seeds to 3rd world countries for free but it's Voodoo magic and the people won't accept it. Yellow rice? Yep, it's yellow because it has vitamin A in it. Children who don't get enough vitamin A go blind. The rice could save about one million kids from going blind each year.

To: LindyBill who wrote (98835)	5/23/2003 5:11:41 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Should farmers be allowed to keep seed crop to plant on their own land in future years? Should patents be allowed on commonly and presently grown food crops? Should those patents be awarded to the company which discovers the genetic sequence? Should farmers growing crops now have to pay for 'use' of these patents... even if they've never had anything to do with the company patenting these crops? Answer these questions, honestly, and you may understand one cause of the disquiet and/or anger over GM foodstuffs. Other details, for example the migration of modified genes into the wild, are <ot> for FADG.