Friday, March 02, 2007
Plants are phenomenal factories
From the washingtonpost.com, a story about a rice variety being engineered to produce a human immune protein... and its approval by the USDA. As one critic of the move, Jane Rissler of the Union of Concerned Scientists, says, the USDA doesn't really have a good record of monitoring and oversight of biotechnology. And what does the company behind the rice variety say (Ventria Bioscience)? "Plants are phenomenal factories, Our raw materials are the sun, soil and water."
I'm sure "sun, soil and water" aren't listed in the patent.
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