USDA Backs Production of Rice With Human Genes

USDA Backs Production of Rice With Human Genes

March 1, 2007 - 8:38pm

from The Washington Post

The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to contain human genes, reigniting fears that biomedically potent substances in GMO plants could escape and turn up in other foods.

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No labeling

by Vicki_R on March 2, 2007 - 9:31am

http://www.saynotogmos.org/. If you are really interested in GMO's, I found this site very helpful in answering many questions I had. Not being familiar with GMO's, I just learned that there is not a label that lets us know if the food we are eating contains GMO's. The whole industry is a bit frightening. It all sounds a bit too weird for me, like a sci-fi movie.

frightening industr...

by trinity8 on March 6, 2007 - 1:01pm

I agree with you that the industry sounds 'frightening', (and that is ONLY the food industry), but in the end there is very little that we can do. Even labels that state 'Yeast extracts' - that is the NEW name for Monosodium Glutamate, E621, which is a flavour enhancer is in disguise.

There is this saying, "Knowledge protects, Ignorance endangers". That is what I am living by....the AWARENESS....hope you don't mind me saying so.

viola

www.dare2baware.com www.shamanicjourney.com www.home-schooling-uk.com www.fun-tavels.com

NO to GMO's...

by trinity8 on March 6, 2007 - 1:03pm

Forgot to mention, thanks for that brilliant link. I will add it to my website.

viola

www.dare2baware.com www.shamanicjourney.com www.home-schooling-uk.com www.fun-tavels.com

LIME blog

by Vicki_R on March 7, 2007 - 11:02am

y_rice...

She writes for LIME and I really like her blogs. Just today she came out with this one on the subjuect we're discussing. Take a look, another person who thinks this is very strange.