Tony Brillantino wrote:

> Forgive me if this message may not be appropriate for this list, but I believe it is.
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> Yesterday, on a New York area AM radio station (1050-WEVD), on the Jay Diamond Talk Show, there was a representative for "The Alliance for Bio Integrity" who represents a group who vehemently opposes the genetic altering of foods.  For an opposing view, they also had some representative of food companies who claims that genetically engineered foods are absolutely safe and feels there should be no reason to have to label and identify food products accordingly.
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> I think this is a huge concern;  a week or so ago I recall reading a newspaper piece re the fact that certain butterflies were in trouble relative to a crop plant (corn?) that had been genetically altered to include an insect toxin by combining genetic material from a soil bacterium.  Rick