[LINK] May have to eat my words ...

[Nicholas English]

Its definitely to early to call that there is any real evidence ... but ...
for any interested tin-hats out there this is a modestly well written
visioning of one of the corners we may be painting our selves into.
(Oh Link relevance is the depecition of treadmille driven net book screens
and the measure of any consumption isn't watts, bandwidth, or $$s but
calories)
Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
http://www.amazon.com/Windup-Girl-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp/1597801585

Nicholas English

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On 23 January 2013 13:13, Frank O'Connor <francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com>wrote:

> See:
> http://www.es.landesbioscience.com/journals/gmcrops/article/21406/?nocache=1759778285
>
> "Researchers with the European Food Safety Authority discovered variants
> of the Cauliflower mosaic virus 35S in the most widely harvested varieties
> of genetically-modified crops, including Monsanto's RoundupReady Soy and
> Maze. According to the researchers, Podevin and du Jardin, the particular
> 'Gene VI' is responsible for a number of possible consequences that could
> affect human health, including inhibition of RNA silencing and production
> of proteins with known toxicity. The EFSA is endorsing 'retrospective risk
> assessment' of CaMV promoter and its Gene VI sequences — in an attempt to
> give it a clean bill of health. It is unknown if the presence of the hidden
> viral genes were the result of laboratory contamination or a possible
> recombinant product of the resultant organism. There are serious
> implications for the production of GMO for foodstuffs, given either
> possibility."
>
> If this is true, and the presence of the virus is not a result of other
> sources of contamination, then it may be possible that GM companies like
> Monsanto are producing, and releasing, foodstuffs that are inimical to
> human consumption ... in other words not good for us.
>
> In which case what I said concerning consuming same on the 10th January
> may be incorrect.
>
> I'll keep tracking this puppy to see where it leads.
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