[edpc]

I'd be interested in the rice if they could use female genes to make it taste like......

Nevermind.........

[muawiyah]

This is just the beginning.

[edpc]

Rice with human genes has been around for awhile, now.

[VOA]

bump

[Amerigomag]

There is growing history of near catastrophic mistakes when allowing genetic experimentation in an uncontrolled environment.

These scientific pursuits are legitimate and should be encouraged but they are uneconomical if the environmental controls that should be in place are imposed.

[Spirited]

I guess that they first get the Mothers not to breast feed, put them on genetically modified soy and then have to feed them rice with a Mother's milk gene to make their stomachs work right.

Amazingly dense; but it will make them money and money is the touchstone of reality in this culture.

[BlazingArizona]

Regardless, U.S. rice farmers in particular fear that important overseas customers in lucrative, biotechnology-averse countries like Japan

They're dead wrong about this. The Japanese have nothing against biotech, but the rice market there is controlled by a few major traditional producers who will use any pretext to keep foreign rice out. Whether the US implements this GM rice or not will have no effect on this attitude.