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To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (1830)	3/26/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: Dan Spillane	Respond to of 2539

I understand there were similar fears and arguments made when hybridization of plants was introduced. Indeed, food was no longer what it used to be. Is this more of the same? I can understand fears in this area. I have been going through some of the scientific and pseudo-scientific studies, and the arguments that have been presented. (By the way, there are some data that suggest horizontal gene transfer is quite common). I admit I am a bit unsettled about the sheep with human genes, per the New Zealand company in the news. It suffices to say, those sheep (was it 5,000?) might best be under armed guard, if I gauge the activists properly. Incidentally, "mad cow" problems are caused by organic mechanisms, as I understand it. It was science that revealed the existence of such. So in this case, why might science be blamed for the organic problem it revealed? Odd...but to a public who is blind to science, perhaps not surprising. And speaking of God, look what happened to Galileo.