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The Agriculture Department has approved a plan to grow genetically modified rice in Kansas, despite opposition from the U.S. rice industry and food safety groups.

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ameliog
May 18, 2007, 3:33 p.m.
money talks.
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texangelwings
May 18, 2007, 6:16 p.m.
Who is going to be eating this rice?
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tryingtofindmyway
May 19, 2007, 9:25 a.m.
"Opponents call the crop "Franken-rice" and say designing food crops to produce pharmaceuticals is a bad idea." Now that is a strong logical argument if I ever heard one. Wow.
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tehranchik
May 19, 2007, 12:36 p.m.
No no no no--'The Future of Food'---watch it.
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tkyrchncs
May 19, 2007, 3:38 p.m.
Boys and girls, please read the article. This rice is not being raised as a food crop. It is being used as a carrier to produce human protiens. These protiens will be extracted form the crop. It's not for Uncle Ben or Coco Puffs.
This does not sound like a dangerous contaminant to me, however there is the risk of crosspollination with standing crops of food rice, however small. I agree that the plants used as carriers for exogenous genes should be non-food crops. At Virginia Tech where I work, they are working on incorporating pharmaceutical-producing genes in tobacco. But why not use a plant that is not consumed by humans or livestock? Still it carries "Play With Your Food" to a whole new level, doesn't it? Oh, and I forgot about the transgenic pigs with a piece of the human genome in them that produce human blood-clotting factors in their milk.