[Sca-cooks] FW: genetically engineereed foods

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

Actually, it identified it as bt corn.  I do believe that is being 
produced for consumption.  And, it doesn't taste like Tabasco.

-Magdalena

Jeff.Gedney at dictaphone.com wrote:

>Of course the GM corn being refused may have some attibute that the Hogs
>and Cows dislike.
>The corn could also be a variety developed for alcohol production or
>popcorn or any number of oterh uses and not for feed corn...
>They may have had the corn varieties side by side, and so never let the
>animals get hungry enough to eat the stuff
>
>ANYWAY, Animal tests like this regularly make a poor indicator of human
>food desireablility.
>Who knows? they could have a used capsicum gene that human find desireable
>( "nacho" corn on the cob! ) to prevent insect depredation...
>
>there are loads of ways to cook these things...
>Usually this sort of thing is set up with an agenda
>such as to "prove" that GM corn is bad, for example...
>
>I would love to see a Double blind placebo controlled study of GM Feed
>corn...
>but i doubt it would happen...
>too many forgone conclusions are already in place to permit a truly
>randomized study.
>
>brandu
>

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Tara Sersen Boroson

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