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" The corn and sugar cane plants, already harvested because the experiments

involving them were completed before the case was decided, had been

modified to produce human hormones, drugs and ingredients for vaccines

against AIDS and hepatitis B....Advocates believe that some drugs and

vaccines may be produced more economically in crops than in the laboratory

cultures that are commonly used today. Some even envision " edible

vaccines, " such as bananas laden with proteins that would boost blood

levels of protective antibodies -- an attractive strategy for developing

countries, where the refrigeration needed for many conventional vaccines is

often not available. But opponents fear that ordinary crops may become

contaminated with drug- spiked versions grown in open fields, and that

unwanted drug exposures from foods could trigger allergic reactions or

other problems in people or animals. " - Washington Post, August 16, 2006

BL Fisher Note:

These scientists and vaccinologists just can't stop fooling around with

Mother Nature. Perhaps they need to develop a vaccine to inject into

themselves to protect the rest of the humanity from their obsessive desire

to fix what isn't broken. Now they are mucking around in our food supply,

experimenting with spiking our corn on the cob and the sugar we put in our

coffee with drugs and vaccines we never said we wanted in the first place.

What is with these people? And why do we give those who choose to enter the

scientific profession so much power to alter the biological integrity of

the world humans successfully inhabited long before Jenner came up with the

idea of smallpox vaccine or Pasteur was hired to save the beer industry?

At least one U.S. District Court judge in Hawaii is slapping the hands of

USDA scientists for genetically engineering crops on hundreds of acres of

Hawaiian land to produce drugs and vaccines in them without first

investigating whether the genetic hybrid plants posed a threat to the

state's hundreds of endangered species. Opposing the new practice of

" bio-pharming, " environmental groups are calling for a moratorium on

open-air testing of bio-engineered crops that could permanently contaminate

the food chain and make animals and humans sicker.

As more Americans demand organic foods which are pure and unadulterated,

why would these bio-pharmers think that people would want to eat drug and

vaccine contaminated crops? Unless they believe they can persuade the

politicians to force us to eat them - for the greater good, of course.

Gene-Altered Crops Denounced

Environmental Groups Seek Moratorium on Open- Air Tests

The Washington Post

Wednesday, August 16, 2006; A03

By Rick Weiss

Environmental groups yesterday called for a moratorium on open-air tests

of crops genetically engineered to produce medicines and vaccines, citing a

federal court's conclusion last week that the Agriculture Department

repeatedly broke the law by allowing companies to plant such crops on

hundred of acres in Hawaii.

In a toughly worded 52-page decision released without fanfare late last

week, a U.S. District judge in Hawaii concluded that USDA's Animal and

Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), which grants permits for the

planting of genetically engineered crops, should have first investigated

whether the plants posed a threat to any of that state's hundreds of

endangered species.

The corn and sugar cane plants, already harvested because the experiments

involving them were completed before the case was decided, had been

modified to produce human hormones, drugs and ingredients for vaccines

against AIDS and hepatitis B.

" APHIS's utter disregard for this simple investigation requirement,

especially given the extraordinary number of endangered and threatened

plants and animals in Hawaii, constitutes an unequivocal violation of a

clear congressional mandate, " wrote Judge J. Seabright in his Aug.

10 decision.

The ruling is the first by a federal court on the controversial practice of

" bio-pharming, " in which crops are engineered to produce potentially

therapeutic human proteins. But it is not the first damning federal

critique of APHIS's oversight. A December 2005 audit by the Agriculture

Department's Office of Inspector General found multiple failings in the

agency's enforcement of research rules for gene- altered plants.

APHIS spokeswoman Iadicicco said yesterday that the agency had

already corrected the major problems cited in the 2005 report and had

recently made policy changes to satisfy the court's concerns, as well. In

addition, she said, APHIS is crafting a sweeping " programmatic "

environmental impact statement addressing larger, long-standing concerns

about its oversight of biotech crops.

But opponents said they have heard such assurances before.

" We are asking the judge to enjoin the issuance of any biopharma permits

anywhere in the country unless and until APHIS completes a programmatic

analysis of their regulatory program, " said H. Achitoff, managing

attorney for Earthjustice in Honolulu, which litigated the case with the

Washington-based Center for Food Safety.

The judge has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to decide what remedies to

impose. The court ruling is the latest in a decade-long struggle that has

pitted biotech companies against an uneasy coalition of environmentalists

and conventional food producers and distributors.

Advocates believe that some drugs and vaccines may be produced more

economically in crops than in the laboratory cultures that are commonly

used today. Some even envision " edible vaccines, " such as bananas laden

with proteins that would boost blood levels of protective antibodies -- an

attractive strategy for developing countries, where the refrigeration

needed for many conventional vaccines is often not available.

But opponents fear that ordinary crops may become contaminated with

drug-spiked versions grown in open fields, and that unwanted drug exposures

from foods could trigger allergic reactions or other problems in people or

animals.

Fears of admixture gained credence in 2002 when a Texas company was found

to have broken rules in its cultivation of corn plants engineered to make a

pig diarrhea vaccine. The error necessitated the destruction of 500,000

bushels of potentially contaminated soybeans, and left the now defunct

company, ProdiGene, stuck with millions of dollars in cleanup costs.

" The use of food crops to produce materials not intended to be in the food

supply must only proceed under systems proven to prevent any contamination

or adulteration of the food supply, " said Barach of the Food

Products Association in Washington. " To date, effective control programs

have not been demonstrated to our satisfaction. "

The federal court decision responds to a 2003 lawsuit filed by several

public interest groups. Taking a novel tack, the groups charged that APHIS

failed to consider the potential impacts on endangered species when it

approved four Hawaii field studies in the previous three years. The plants

were produced by ProdiGene, Monsanto, the Hawaii Agriculture Research

Center and Garst Seed of Slater, Iowa.

The plaintiffs -- including Friends of the Earth, Pesticide Action Network

North America and Kahea, a Hawaiian environmental alliance -- noted that

Hawaii is home to 329 endangered or threatened species, more than any other

state, including many birds with easy access to test plots.

Seabright agreed with the groups that, although proof of harm is lacking,

APHIS's issuance of the permits for 800 acres on four Hawaiian islands

without consideration of those potential impacts was " arbitrary and

capricious. "

" This is probably the strongest message yet to USDA that they need to do a

much better job at regulating all genetically engineered crop field

trials, " said Bill Freese of the Center for Food Safety, noting that about

a dozen pharma permits are approved in a typical year.

" They've been rubber-stamping for too long, and they need to get serious

about these crops. " But the judge rejected the groups' broader claim that

APHIS had broken its promise to improve its overall system of oversight.

" Although the Plaintiffs are understandably upset by the fact that this

process has taken over three years, the court accepts APHIS's

representations " that the delay is justified and progress is under way.

A. Whalen, president of the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center,

which ran the studies involving sugar cane engineered to make a human blood

protein, said the ruling " looks backward " at problems already corrected.

" The idea that this has got the potential for harm has been all blown out

of proportion, " she said. " We're really proud of the work we do, and we

know how important it is to safeguard the environment. "

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