Peter Todd wrote:

> Well the thing that gets me with examples like that is it happens without
> any GM technology at all. Standard cross-breeding techniques
> occasionally produce strange allergic reactions and other weird effects,
> it's rare, and more rare then effects with the GM stuff, but it happens.
> Technology or not, it's all gene splicing, especially when you look at
> the effect of naturally occuring bacteria and viruses.

The difference is that it's much faster, goes farther and there's much more 
money involved (which gets many more unscrupulous people on board and 
convinces otherwise scrupulous people to follow their lead). It's not for 
nothing that a high number of related incidents happened in the last ten 
years that were unknown just a few decades ago. With all the breeding that 
they did for ages. Just look at it from a historic perspective; there is a 
difference in quality. 

Gerhard

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