18 Synthesis/Regeneration Winter 1999

GENETIC ENGINEERING: THE UNHEARD DANGERS

Greg Thompson describes the Grassroots Gathering which was the basis of this collection.

Introduction to Biotechnology

Brian Tokar feels that biotech is being used to ignore underlying problems that confront humanity.

Ronnie Cummins questions the process of reducing living beings to the status of manufactured products.

Ricarda Steinbrecher gives the basics, beginning with cell biology.

Letters

from Roberto Verzola and Martin Frid.

Charles Margulis maintains that the unpredictability of genetic engineering leads to food safety risks.

Brewster Kneen explains that companies like Monsanto avoid taking responsibility for the consequences of their products.

Michael Hansen & Jean Halloran detail potential allergic, toxic and antibiotic resistance effects of genetically altered food.

Peter Montague argues that the 1993 approval of rBGH may have been based on faulty data.

Andrew Kimbrell & Joseph Mendelson petitioned the US FDA based on new evidence of rBGH absorption and IGF-1 health risks.

Jane Akre & Steve Wilson were fired for refusing to distort what they learned about rBGH.

Andy Zimmerman thinks that attempts to silence critics hurt efforts to put on a happy face.

Ricarda Steinbrecher wonders if genetic scientists actually know what they are doing.

Sonja Schmitz. is concerned that escape of herbicide resistant genes could disrupt ecosystems.

Elaine Ingham thinks it is possible to engineer a microorganism that would kill terrestrial plants.

Eric Aplyn notes that genetic engineering can damage beneficial insects & cause genetic pollution.

Martha Crouch explains a patent for killing second generation seeds of crop plants.

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