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Biotech / Medical : Monsanto Co. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anthony Wong who wrote (1489)	3/5/1999 3:45:00 AM
From: Dan Spillane	Respond to of 2539

Well, most things are not tested for 12 years, like Monsanto RR soy was. In the US, we trust other things from the FDA and EPA, given far less testing. And then our farmers know Monsanto product has benefits for them, the environment, and the economy. ABC news tried over and over to come up with gene-food scare stories, but they never caught on even over a period of months and years. So the Fox news isn't really any more exciting. If gene food was "scary but safe" in the US a year or two ago, it is now less scary and more safe, in most people's minds. So stories I see in the US press make most people yawn, like the Fox news. (from the story) The genetically engineered soybeans, known as Roundup Ready soybeans, "underwent 12 years of field testing before being introduced commercially in 1996." said Gary Barton, a spokesperson for Monsanto. "The very questions consumer [groups] are now asking, the health and environmental issues, are questions" Monsanto scientists examined, and the FDA asked when the products were going through this testing period, Barton noted. (Also from the story, it's pretty easy to see how dumb the claims are...how many people in the US would believe genetic engineering is a "random" process, and the idiot who would say this?) "You are randomly inserting genes from a dissimilar species into the genome of a target organism. This can disrupt the native genes and cause them to function in a different way," potentially causing the organism to produce "strange and lethal toxins."