FSNET: Poison risk is greater from organic foods,

mmiller@pcsia.com
Tue, 07 Sep 1999 19:26:25 -0500

Get out your green barnyard boots, somebody really blew it with the
original piece of "life science" propaganda reported on here. (I wonder
how long Prof. Gray will be with this lobbying front group?) If applying
bacillius thuringensis Bacteria to plants leaves, which when ingested by
lepidoptera caterpilliars produces a harmful endotoxin in their gut, is
harmful to humans, How Much More Dangerous is it to eat corn and potatoes
that are altered to produce the BT endotoxin Directly Thoughout Their Plant
Tissues INCLUDING the plant tissues we EAT? I guess when you try to lie
about reality, it is hard to keep your logic straight.
MMiller

>> archived at:
>> http://www.extension.iastate.edu/files/fscurrent/
>> POISON RISK IS GREATER FROM ORGANIC FOODS, SAYS SCIENTIST
>> Sept. 6/99
>> Sunday Times
>> Stephen Bevan and Lois Jones
....
>> "You are 30 times more likely to poison yourself with organic produce
>> because it allows Bt [the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis] to spread
>> directly. There's this myth about it being natural," he said.
>> Sprays containing Bt have been used for a decade by farmers to control
>> caterpillars. When ingested, the bacterium produces endotoxins which
>> attack
>> the walls of the insects' guts. In mammals, they can cause death from
>> septic shock.
.....

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