Re: GMO and health impact

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob <xyzbbruner
@uclink4.berkeley.edu> writes
>On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:44:00 +0100, "Jez"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> "Golden rice" (rice with a high content of vitamin A) would be an
>>> example of a GMO product designed to be good for health.
>>>
>>But failing miserably to achieve the results promised......
>
>There are differences of opinion about the value of the vitamin level
>in the current product. It is clearly sub-optimal, but quite possibly
>useful. In any case, further development work should improve it. After
>all, this is step one, very early in a new technology.
>
>bob
>
>
A gmo food is created to give an advantage to grower or  creator
sometime by giving advantage to the consumer, the technology has
enormous possibilities much more than simple plant breeding, plant
breeding is not relied on for the production of new drugs, good or bad,
species are gm for drug production or weed killer resistance it is the
wide capability and the ability of the gm food species to synthesise
undesirable material (protein) that was not intended that may  be a
disaster in one of the 1000s of future creations.
We must be prepared for the possibility by testing intensively over
years before the food species is available to the consumer.
Remember gm food species give very little advantage to the consumer
therefore risk is not justified, this is in contrast to new cancer drugs
where only few are at risk and they have a lot to gain.
-- 
ddwyer