Re: FW: EDITION 100 May 22, 1999

Mike Miller (mmiller@pcsia.com)
Sun, 23 May 1999 09:39:36 -0500

At 23:01 22-05-99 -0600, you wrote:
snip
>++5. REVIEW OF DATA ON POSSIBLE TOXICITY OF GM POTATOES Agnet May 18, May
Big snip

Second, the GM
>potatoes used contained almost 20% less protein than unmodified potatoes.

This is very interesting but does anybody know why? I have heard that
Roundup Ready Soybean have lower yields and that they might be more
suspectable to disease problems. Is that a matter of using scarce plant
resources for other purposes like making Bt protein? But would not the Bt
protein showup in the protein tests?

On another front, 20 % less protein is a big problem for those whose diet
is already protein deficient diets.

Mike Miller

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