From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 12:48:45 MDT
In a message dated 7/9/02 10:27:30, michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com writes:
>As far I understood, Monsanto was forced to add the 'terminator' gene by the
>very same green activists who now blast them for doing it, claiming
>'corporate greed'. The rational was to prevent an 'accidental' spread
>of GM crops.
No, Monsanto introduced terminator to prevent farmers from "stealing" their
biotech by breeding the seeds. It certainly *could* provide excellent
protection
from GM gene escape, and the anti-GM greens are hypocritically silent about
that
fact. Someone *genuinely* concerned with genetic escape should push
agressively
for terminator technology, since existing crops have been generally
agressively bred,
hybridized, and mutated over thousands of years and pack quite a set of weird
genes
with basically unknowable effects on x-breeding with wild-types.
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