Reply #8: Thanks! Will read on next trip to library. Today's [View All]

paper had this article. Where do these fools get off
deciding *they* have the right to make *my* choices as
to what I ingest, especially since I am not at risk
for herpes, AIDS etc.


Should farmers be able to grow crops genetically altered to help stop the spread of human diseases and cure afflictions ranging from herpes to heart disease to HIV?


Not in Oregon, say a group of doctors and others who want the Legislature to impose a four-year moratorium on so-called biopharming.

The state chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility worries that such crops would infiltrate the environment, exposing residents to drugs they don't need.

...
North, who has worked more than a year on the physician group's opposition to all genetically modified foods, said biopharming threatens to expose the public to microscopic levels of medicines drifting through the air.


http://oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1102683506164280.xml