... to resist disease, pests and chemicals -- can cross-pollinate freely with regular crops, passing along their altered traits to the next generation . Environmental Protection Agency determined from routine tests that StarLink might cause allergic reactions in some people. As a result, the government didn't approve Star link ... pollen. In contrast, those larvae that ate leaves with traditional pollen, or no pollen, were all alive."" . The question of ethics is often raised with GMO'S. Normally these question deal with the right of man to tamper with nature. How ever the conduct of ... th...

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... they are actually safe. These plants and animal variants need to be tested over a long period of time to ensure that there are no human or environmental health risks. Another issue that arises is that of ethics. Issues such as tampering with nature by mixing genes among species, stress for modified animals, objections to consuming animal genes that are put into plants ... ...

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