Dr. Joseph Mercola
Why Genetically Modified Crops Can Devastate Health
7/2/03
http://www.mercola.com/2003/jul/2/gm_crops.htm 9.
Genetic engineering creates super-viruses By far the most insidious dangers of genetic engineering are inherent to the process itself, which greatly enhances the scope and probability of horizontal gene transfer and recombination, the main route to creating viruses and bacteria that cause disease epidemics. This was highlighted in 2001 by the 'accidental' creation of a killer mouse virus in the course of an apparently innocent genetic engineering experiment.
Newer techniques, such as DNA shuffling are allowing geneticists to create in a matter of minutes in the laboratory millions of recombinant viruses that have never existed in billions of years of evolution. Disease-causing viruses and bacteria and their genetic material are the predominant materials and tools for genetic engineering, as much as for the intentional creation of bio-weapons.
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PBS - harvest of fear
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/harvest/New Scientist Special Report on GM Organisms
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/gm-food
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