transgendered through transgenics


	transgendered through transgenics

wildcat

11-27-2006 7:15 AM

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In a seemingly unlikely partnership Isreali, Palestinian, and German scientists have annnounced <A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060926/sc_nm/science_mideast_fish_dc_1">they are going to try and transgenically transgender fish by injecting compounds found in plants</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ethicsingenetics.com/?p=13"><P>As part of a project with Hebrew University and Germany’s University of Hohenheim, Qutob and his colleagues will inject compounds from plants found in the occupied West Bank and often used as seasonings into food fed to newborn Nile Tilapia fish.  “This will have an effect on the fish’s metabolic (structure) — it may shift from female to male,” said Qutob, a chemist at al-Quds University in East Jerusalem.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ethicsingenetics.com/?p=13"><P>Apparently, they’ve already been able to do this with steroids. I think this presents a <EM>very</EM> strong case for labeling GM food clearly. I don’t think I want to eat a transgendered fish whether it was done through steroids or through injecting plant compounds. Do we have the right to know, or is it irrelevent details?
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