A new report scheduled for release this morning warns that the issues posed by gene-altered insects are so complex that unless federal agencies begin now to design methods of oversight, the necessary rules may not be in place when scientists are ready to start releasing insects into the environment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36943-2004Jan21?language=printer
13,513 posted on
01/22/2004 1:21:56 AM PST by
JustPiper
(Register Republican BUT Write-In Tancredo for March !!!!)
To: JustPiper
I think they've already messed around with and released some 'new' insects. Read somewhere we had several different species to "emerge" last year. Yuck. I know I saw a couple of weird ones in my garden, last Summer. Insects, that is. :)
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