The cotton contains an antibiotic resistant marker that confers resistance to the antibiotics streptomycin and spectinomycin. Scientists are worried that if the plant is released in the environment,The bacterium responsible for gonorrhoea could acquire the antibiotic resistance gene either directly from transgenic plant materials or indirectly from other bacteria that take up the gene. This could result in strains of gonorrhoea that are immune to treatment by antibiotics. Hybrid Creatures Amrad, an Australian company biotech company, has acquired a European patenting on a biotech process for producing embryos containing cells from both humans and animals, including mice, sheep, pigs, cattle, goats and fish. The patent covers the combining of genes between species and includes the potential to produce a hybrid creature or chimera, with body parts from different species, including man.
Citizen groups are outraged.
Paraguay can't afford to lose the Brazilian market, which accounts for about half of foreign corn sales. Liability Lawsuit Against Aventis A coalition of US farming groups is pushing for legislation to make seed companies liable for any financial losses due to gene-altered crops. The suit contends that Aventis was negligent in failing to inform farmers that StarLink was only approved for animal feed and needed to be segregated from other corn. Aventis recently announced plans to sell off its agricultural arm, and focus more on its pharmaceutical business. No Biotech Feed British food chains are refusing to sell meat, eggs and dairy products from animals fed on genetically engineered crops.