GMO

Who Wants A Dolly-Kabob?

Posted by Su Avasthi on October 19, 2006 - 2:20am.

The FDA plans to greenlight the use of cloned livestock for meat and dairy products by the years' end.

Which means that Dolly could be coming to a grocery store near you.





A Pea to Sneeze at

A Pea to Sneeze atPosted by Kerry Trueman on November 30, 2005 - 4:13am.

It would be disingenuous of me to claim “I hate to say I told you so,” when the truth is, it gives me a frisson of schadenfreude to read about the latest genetically modified mess from the blunderful world of bioengineering.

Scientists in Australia took a gene that protects bean plants from beetle damage and transferred it to green pea plants in the hopes of providing them with the same protection. In the process, however, they inadvertently created a pea that appears to trigger allergic reactions.



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