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["Guy Clark" <guyclark@socket.net>]

Hey folks-
        I will be on a local one hour radio show later today (7 p.m.) on KOPN 
here
in Columbia, MO talking about genetic engineering and I have a couple of
hundred questions. I will limit them to just a few:

Does anyone have a good list of biotech employees that have gone into the
regulatory agencies? And did they go back to their former jobs when they
got done?

I am working on a list of companies/countries/agencies/groups that have
passed anti-GMO decisions, does one already exist, or the pieces of one?

I am also trying to make a list of GMO ingredients in our food supply, does
one, or the pieces of one, already exist?

I am working on the question from the perspective of arguments used by
apologists of the technology and why they are fallacious. Here are some of
the ones I am working on:

GMO foods are not significantly different than hybrids.
        Difference in kind, not in degree
        Not enough to regulate, but enough to patent
GMO foods are safe.
        To non-GMO farmers
                Genetic drift
                Increased prolificacy and promiscuousness of GMO's
                Superweeds/superbugs
                Genie out of the bottle problem
        To humans
                Concerns about increased food allergies 
                Unanticipated problems due to novel combinations
                Ethical and religious concerns
                Loss of antibiotics due to use of such as gene markers
        To the rest of the environment
                Terminator/Traitor technology
                Monarch Butterfly/Green Lacewing studies
                Concerns about damage to bird populations
        The difference between not proven unsafe and precautionary            
  principle
GMO foods are well regulated.
        By whom? Revolving door problem
        Agencies caught between regulating/promoting technologies             
  (witness
USDA's collusion in creation of Terminator)
        Regulation divided among different scientists in different            
  departments
of different agencies whose agendas are                 not always in synch.
We need GMO's to:
        Feed the world
        Reduce the use of toxic chemicals
Those who resist the expansion of GMO's are:
        Tree hugging environmentalist/Luddites
        Foreign protectionists
        Irrational

So what am I missing? Please help. I will be at the farm most of tomorrow
picking for my CSA delivery/Wed. market.
Namaste',
Guy Clark

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