They are meddling with things Man was not meant to know! (No I don't really belive that, but I think they ought to pay attention to the way evolution works.) One of the things I've learned from experimenting with genetic algorthims is that you can develop a more efficient solution through specialization, but at the cost of resiliency. If you change the genetic makeup of an entire crop in only ten years (a crop that has evolved over thousands of years), don't you run a better risk of total crop failure should some Bt-loving bug suddenly find a major bonanza? Is ten years enough to check for consequences? There are bugs that appear only on a 17-year cycle. No doubt there are other possibilities in Nature that can conspire to create a situation that is intolerant of rapidly developed and widely distributed GMOs. Didn't the agribiz learn anything about the dangers of monocropping in the 30's? I just question the wisdom of rapid adoption of new methods to something we all depend on so much. Not that we shouldn't experiment; we just shouldn't change everything all at once. No backup is a bad idea. - Bill Thoen Neil Havermale wrote: > One of the "organic" methods to control bugs on veggies is to > use Bt fungai to infected most pests and rotted them from the > inside out. It is dusted on to the crop and remains a widely > accepted "certified organic" method. Now the the Bt gene has > been inserted into several crops. ... > > At this pace of adoption all corn could be Bt ready in less than 10 > years. > > FYI > MidNight Mapper > aka Neil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put > "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
