Action Alert: Oppose Prodigene 'pharmaceutical' corn
gmfreeman | 10.08.2004 11:48 | Bio-technology
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is requesting comments on the proposal from Prodigene to grow corn containing pharmaceutical components. Growing pharmaceuticals in food crops is dangerous and stupid. As Nature magazine pointed out:
"It seems that an industry in which the PhD is the intellectual norm is either incapable of learning a simple lesson from the past or cannot bring itself to act appropriately, despite what it has learned previously."
(Nature Biotechnology, February 2004, Volume 22, Number 2, p. 133)
"It seems that an industry in which the PhD is the intellectual norm is either incapable of learning a simple lesson from the past or cannot bring itself to act appropriately, despite what it has learned previously."
(Nature Biotechnology, February 2004, Volume 22, Number 2, p. 133)
ACTION ALERT
Contact the USDA before the end
of the day on Tuesday, August 10th
The biotech company ProdiGene has requested to grow genetically engineered corn
that contain the pharmaceutical components aprotinin and trypsinogen.
The USDA has established a public comment period through the end of the day on
Tuesday, August 10, 2004.
Please contact the USDA and ask them to turn down the ProdiGene permit request.
Since there are two permit requests -- one for aprotinin and one for
trypsinogen -- you will need to send two seperate comments for maximum impact.
To send comments, simply click on the links below:
Send comments to the USDA
opposing GE corn containing aprotinin
http://capwiz.com/thecampaign/issues/alert/?alertid=6226501&type=CU Send comments to the USDA
opposing GE corn containing trypsinogen
http://capwiz.com/thecampaign/issues/alert/?alertid=6226521&type=CU ProdiGene has already twice been found to have violated USDA guidelines. In
2002, the USDA announced that ProdiGene's pharmaceutical corn nearly
contaminated the human food supply. The contents of a grain elevator had to be
destroyed in one case and 155 acres of regular corn had to be destroyed in
another.
A special section has been set up on The Campaign to Label Genetically
Engineered Foods web site where you can read news stories about the ProdiGene
fiasco. ACTION ALERT
Contact the USDA before the end
of the day on Tuesday, August 10th
The biotech company ProdiGene has requested to grow genetically engineered corn
that contain the pharmaceutical components aprotinin and trypsinogen.
The USDA has established a public comment period through the end of the day on
Tuesday, August 10, 2004.
Please contact the USDA and ask them to turn down the ProdiGene permit request.
Since there are two permit requests -- one for aprotinin and one for
trypsinogen -- you will need to send two seperate comments for maximum impact.
To send comments, simply click on the links below:
Send comments to the USDA
opposing GE corn containing aprotinin
http://capwiz.com/thecampaign/issues/alert/?alertid=6226501&type=CU Send comments to the USDA
opposing GE corn containing trypsinogen
http://capwiz.com/thecampaign/issues/alert/?alertid=6226521&type=CU ProdiGene has already twice been found to have violated USDA guidelines. In
2002, the USDA announced that ProdiGene's pharmaceutical corn nearly
contaminated the human food supply. The contents of a grain elevator had to be
destroyed in one case and 155 acres of regular corn had to be destroyed in
another.
A special section has been set up on The Campaign to Label Genetically
Engineered Foods web site where you can read news stories about the ProdiGene
fiasco.
http://www.thecampaign.org/prodigene.php
gmfreeman