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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (17760)	5/24/2003 6:28:12 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Many participate in the EU debates, but only some, willingly or unwillingly, reach the US media hightlights of fame and cotton picking spin. Some with experiences on how a lot of little bacterias and viruses adapt really fast to new pestizide surroundings, as well as the importance of large genetic pools. (Scientific American should really be banned, shouldn't it?? many,many moons ago) One really simple thing is the difference between milled corns for breakfast and already uncontrollable modified corn harvests for the next years of maybe harvest, maybe pestizides. However, luckily most companies have managed to make the DNA unfertile, just to avoid liability issues but not patents, as well as competing pestizides. As the farmer from Illinois said, you just plant it, order the right stuff to kill everything around it, and then you harvest it, then you order new stuff for the next summer. others worry about a tomatoate crossed with a fish, obviously not a too fertile combination except during great floods. Some are really fascinated with the "killer shark, application, share, tomatoe, virus or worm, or just the criminal profile"

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (17760)	5/24/2003 6:42:45 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

However, if USA can drastically cut down statistics on crime, illegal aliens needed to pestizide and pick the sallads, consumption of cocacola and ritalin, extraordinary obesity and regular dangling chads, not to forget achieving better sperm counts, larger sexual organs, obviously that is the way to go. UK might join after they have made sure they have a new cow in place of all the old cows, as well as those sheep, plus a handy Kleenex for both royals and pigs, if they happen to sneeze or produce other bodily secret secretes, not just the simple, more traditional ones of Bill. Even Rhodesia might import some cornflakes after that, especially if they grow on trees.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (17760)	5/26/2003 3:29:30 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

Re: France and Germany lead the debate in the EU, do they not? According to Mr Rumsfeld, they don't.... Re: France is leading the charge against the prohibition of genetically modified foods while poor countries starve, a totally unnecessary situation. They should be ashamed of themselves. I totally agree on that. For that matter, despite Europe's purportedly squeaky-clean agriculture, we've been PLAGUED by food scandals over the last four years --from dioxin-infested poultry to the mad cow to poisonous oils to.... The fact is, agribusiness is a big chunk of EU GDP and France is a major foodstuff producer/exporter. And there're still over seven million farms in the EU (15 countries) --compare that to the US's two million farms.... Taking into account the EU's sluggish demographics, it's clear that Europe doesn't need to develop biotechnologies and genetical research to feed its declining and aging population --we're already rolling in surplus food! It's no wonder that the countries most eager to research GM-food are the demographic giants of Asia (China, India, Malaysia).