David Adam on pharmaceutical farming Special reports Guardian Unlimited
This has been kicking around for a while on the edges of GMO tech. There is a lot of concern about this stuff "getting out" of the labs and greenhouses. The developers want to "get out" and start producing the beneficial products from there research. And on the other side "getting out" means contamination of the food chain.
This has been kicking around for a while on the edges of GMO tech. There is a lot of concern about this stuff "getting out" of the labs and greenhouses. The developers want to "get out" and start producing the beneficial products from there research. And on the other side "getting out" means contamination of the food chain.
I love a good controversy!!
The post is a good balanced article. I really liked the authors unbiased presentation of the story. As usual you have to do a bit of research to see where things really are. I wonder how wide spread this type of production really is in the world. The post states that things have stalled as major pharma firms have no interest and anti GM groups stepped up the protests. Then he states areas where this is going on. The barley in Finland for example(?) I'd bet those into this will not do a lot of advertising.
The "yuk" factor gets to me when someone mentions putting human genes in anything. I don't know it's kind of creepy. The picture is barley with a human gene added. YUK
