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Sunday, August 20, 2006

What are you eating Aug. 20th Update

DON'T BE FOOLED BY THE HYPE>>>>ANYTHING GM IS HARMFUL...IT'S NOT NATURAL...IF IT'S NOT BROKE DON'T FIX IT. GM FOODS HAVE DEVISTATING EFFECTS ON THE HUMAN BODY AND HOW IT PROCESSES FOODS IN YOUR SYSTEM...AND HAS A HUGE IMPACT ON YOU IMMUNE SYSTEM. Always remember you are what you eat. If you eat GM you become GM.

WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced late Friday that U.S. commercial supplies of long-grain rice had become inadvertently contaminated with a genetically engineered variety not approved for human consumption.
Johanns said the company that made the experimental rice, Bayer CropScience of Monheim, Germany, had provided information to the Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration indicating that the rice poses no threats to human health or the environment.
Johanns said he did not know where the contaminated rice was found or how widespread it may be in the U.S. food chain.
The agency first learned about it from the company, he said, after it discovered "trace amounts" during testing of commercial supplies.
The variety, known as LLRICE 601, is endowed with bacterial DNA that makes rice plants resistant to a weed killer made by the agricultural giant Aventis.
Johanns acknowledged that the discovery could have a significant impact on rice sales — especially exports, which are worth close to $1 billion a year.
Many U.S. trading partners have strict policies forbidding importation of certain genetically engineered foods.
Those restrictions reflect a mix of science-based fears that some gene-altered foods or seeds may pose health or environmental hazards, cultural beliefs about food purity, and political wrangling over trade disparities.
New accusations triggeredFriday's announcement quickly prompted a new round of accusations that the government is failing in its efforts to regulate and contain the burgeoning field of agricultural biotechnology, in which genes from various organisms are being added to crops and other plants — usually to confer resistance to weed-killers or to make the plants produce their own insecticides.
"How many incidents will it take before the government takes their oversight of the biotech industry seriously?" asked Gregory Jaffe, director of the biotechnology project at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4127418.html

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