Think about it for a moment: unlabeled GMOs with medical consequences, including, as in this case, sterility, constitutes the force feeding of industrial toxins to a global population. You might call it forced drugging, and you would be right. http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=1395
'Pharmaceutical' rice plan advances in state
"The incident forced ProdiGene Inc., the College Station, Texas, company that produced the engineered corn, to destroy half a million bushels and compensate farmers $3 million.
Just last week, the North American Millers Assn. sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture urging more stringent regulatory oversight of such crops.
The letter warned that "the risk of adulteration from genetic material" modified for pharmaceutical or industrial uses entering the food chain was, in its view, "unacceptable."
GM corn set to stop man spreading his seed Special report: GM crops debate Digg it Robin McKie, science editor guardian.co.uk, Sunday 9 September 2001 10.4
"Scientists have created the ultimate GM crop: contraceptive corn. Waiving fields of maize may one day save the world from overpopulation.
The pregnancy prevention plants are the handiwork of the San Diego biotechnology company Epicyte, where researchers have discovered a rare class of human antibodies that attack sperm."
Dow, Epicyte Ink Antibody Deal Article from:Chemical Week Article date:September 13, 2000 Author: SISSELL, KARA COPYRIGHT 2000 Chemical Week Associates.
DOW AGROSCIENCES AND EPICYTE Pharmaceuticals (San Diego) have signed an agreement to grant Dow access to Epicyte's plant-based antibody production technology. Dow will use the technology to develop undisclosed animal health and food safety products. Dow AgroSciences will in return supply Epicyte with molecules that Epicyte will use to develop novel pharmaceuticals.
San Diego Biotech Firm Epicyte Pharmaceutical Shuts Down, Sells Assets. Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Date: Friday, May 7 2004
By Penni Crabtree, The San Diego Union-Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 7--Epicyte Pharmaceutical, one of the last vestiges of the San Diego biotechnology community's attempt to become an agricultural biotech stronghold, has closed and sold its assets to a North Carolina company. The privately held San Diego biotech, which at its peak employed about 50, has been purchased by Pittsboro, N.C.-based Biolex, another privately owned biotech. Financial terms were not disclosed when the deal was announced yesterday.
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