[leps-talk] The Bt debate--take a cautious view

[Michael Gochfeld]

Where do you get Guarana, a favorite of mine? Should I be looking in
Latin American stores in NYC?  MGOCHFELD

"Chris J. Durden" wrote:
> 
> At 06:46 AM 2/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >I have other reasons besides Monarchs to be skeptical about the
> >introduction of
> >Bt into corn.
> >This might just turn out to be a quick way of developing widespread resistance
> >to Bt.
> >Monarchs are probably a side issue.
> 
> I found out this year that I can no longer drink US-made Coke or other soft
> drinks or eat US-made candy without breaking out in serious hives.
> Consuming Mexican Coke or foreign soft drinks like Antarctica Guarana does
> not do this. This used not to be so. What is new? The commonest US sweetner
> is corn syrup. Most other countries use cane syrup or beet syrup. ADM seems
> to control most if not all of the production and marketing of US corn
> syrup. ADM is involved in the improvement of crops by genetic engineering.
> Have they recently changed the feedstock for the production of cane syrup?
> There is nothing on the labelling of our foods that would indicate this.
> Probably this has nothing to do with BT corn, but who knows? Remember those
> Scottish rats that ate the Snowdrop-potatoes.
>       Just a grass roots observation.
> ..............Chris Durden
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