The damage which genetically engineered crops may be doing to soil organisms is a very serious threat to the natural environment and to soil fertility. The article below describes that threat. The CEOs of the corporations responsible for the widespread planting of genetically engineered crops are not in prison, where by all that is right and just they ought to be. Instead they have broken no law and walk among us as free men, because they have manipulated our system of laws to the extent that nothing in our statutes prohibits their actions. Tom Subj: new article on soil ecology and GEOs Date: 01-09-30 17:49:59 EDT From: [log in to unmask] (Laurel Hopwood) Sender: [log in to unmask] (Biotech Forum) Reply-to: [log in to unmask] (Biotech Forum) To: [log in to unmask] from the Center for Responsible Genetics website NEW ARTICLE ON SOIL ECOLOGY AND GMO'S PUBLISHED PSRAST has published an article warning for potential damage of GMOs crops on soil ecology by way of horizontal transfer of transgenic vector DNA to soil microorganisms. Disturbance of soil ecology may affect soil fertility. If the proposed mechanism works, there is a risk that impairment of soil fertility may persist for very long time or permanently. See:Genetically Engineered Crops - A Threat to Soil Fertility? http://www.psrast.org/soilecolart.htm The article concludes: 1. The suggested mechanism might in the worst case cause irreparable, cumulative and persistent damage to soil fertility 2. The genes causing the complication might spread uncontrollably PSRAST has waited with publishing this article for a long time because the participating soil ecologists have hesitated to disclose their names, fearing to loose their grants or even their jobs. But we feel we cannot wait any more. This is an example of the "tacit censorship" that the powerful multinationals exert over science, see "Dysfunctional science" at http://www.psrast.org/crisisofsci.htm. Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology (PSRAST): A Global Network for impartial interdisciplinary evaluation of the safety and value of new technologies. www.psrast.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For SC email list T-and-C, send: GET TERMS-AND-CONDITIONS.CURRENT to [log in to unmask]