[extropy-chat] Superweed forms

Dirk Bruere dirk at neopax.com
Tue Jul 26 14:59:51 UTC 2005


Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
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>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/0%2C2763%2C1535428%2C00.html
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>>GM crop cross-contaminates with weed to negative results.
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>>Wow, who would ever have predicted something like that?
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>This is conjecture. Nobody has done a check of the DNA to see if the
>weed actually picked up genes from the oilseed rape. Isn't it odd it
>happened on one 'test' location in the UK after no such incidents have
>happened in all the other places it is used commercially in other
>countries? I would sooner believe that someone's been breeding round-up
>resistant weeds as a hobby to seed such 'test' plots with.
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I find it more plausible that big business would suppress such data, or 
more likely refuse to look for it in the first place.

-- 
Dirk

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