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  nina federoff, genetic engineering

    One of the strategies employed by GM boosters is to claim that foreign genes inserted into the genomes of plants and animals are somehow equivalent to the results obtained by conventional breeding is a blatant untruth and they should be called on this lie.

    Of the 181 amino acids which make up bovine growth hormone there is a change of one amino acid to facilitate the insertion of the hormone gene into bacterial cells for growth in a culture medium. Considering that a change of one amino acid in the human protein ,hemoglobin, which contains over 400 amino acids results in a condition called Sickle Cell Anemia, how can they state that GM products are identical to the natural one?

    I posited two years ago that the death of honeybee colonies might be the result of the bees collecting pollen from corm containing the bT gene and using that pollen to nurture their young. Interested readers need only to Google, "John McDonald, Honeybees", to get access to the two articles published in the San Francisco Chronicle.On U.S. foreign policy: GMO all the way posted 1 year, 3 months ago 23 Responses