Drug Making Genes Added To Corn Jump To Soya 510
Anonymous Cowdog writes "Google News turned up a scary item today: Apparently, genetically altered corn, designed not to repel pests or withstand bad weather, but rather to grow pharmecuticals (for diabetes and diarrhea) has been accidentally mixed with soy plants in the field, resulting in 500,000 bushels of contaminated soybeans being quarantined by the US FDA. Ooops. Here's the story, and here's another story about the same case. The company who brought us this nice event is called ProdiGene. Looks like they're also working on an edible AIDS vaccine (kinda makes sense, eat Tofu, enjoy free love!) Now, I was thinking, will our government protect us from doom-by-hand-me-down-genes? and on a hunch (honest!) I did this google search for keywords ProdiGene and "george w bush". Result? A not so reassuring article."
All Your Seeds Are Belong To Us! (Score:-1, Funny)
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3.. Profit!
Someone plz firebomb Monsanto...
Bush and genetically altered corn (Score:5, Funny)
Off course I didn't RTFA, but I guess it says that Bush ate a lot of genetically altered corn. That sure explains a lot
Geeks Beware! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Trypsin? (Score:3, Funny)
All you paranoid anti-gmo people... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Trypsin? (Score:1, Funny)
So that's why my mouth feels so well digested after a hard night of the good old vodka fueled binge'n'purge fun!
Genetic mutated food (Score:3, Funny)
Marge:That's baby corn
Homer: WHAAAAT?!?!!
Lisa: Mom...my potato is eating my carrot
GWB? (Score:3, Funny)
WTF? Why would you do that?!
Easily corrected... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pussies (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Trypsin? (Score:3, Funny)
You should be apologizing for posting as "Ann Coulter" instead. Eeeeeeew.
Re:Caution... (Score:4, Funny)
What realy happened was alarming enough to get a lot of reads without making it sound like an experiment gene jumped between two different and unrelated species.
What's next, BatBoy run over by a truck or CmdrTaco's bodily orifaces probed by space aliens?
Re:Typical FUD (Score:2, Funny)
6. Profit!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Monsanto's new motto: (Score:3, Funny)
(HINT: Moderators, if you're not familiar with the book in question, DO NOT MODERATE!)
Re:Amber mutations (Score:1, Funny)
Badly written ones at at that.
Perhaps you're a little sketchy on the concept of "fiction".
For future reference, Gattaca and The Matrix were bad science fiction as well.
Re:Big deal? (Score:3, Funny)
Cute. Considering that arsenic is an element, that means they would need to perform either nuclear fusion or fission in order to create it. Now that would be something to see.
safe food or safe sex? (Score:3, Funny)
given the choice I think most