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- Organic farmers fear "brand New Zealand" will be damaged if plans proceed to expand the range of genetically modified animals
- Farmers and exporters told a panel to put human genes into goats, sheep and cows that overseas customers might stop buying
- Rob Hamill told the Environmental Risk Management Authority that New Zealand should make the most of its isolation from other countries and reject GM. "Let the big countries that are hell-bent on creating GM organisms do it in their own backyard" -Hamill
- Agresearch wants to try to get the animals to make human proteins in their milk, which they hope could eventually be used to treat human diseases
- It plans to keep the animals behind a double layer of fencing, protected by an alarm system, at Ruakura near Hamilton. But Malibu Hamilton said it went against Maori protocol to compromise the genealogy of a creature by artificially altering its gene structure
Reflection:
I chose this story because I am against genetically modified animals, and I think it's wrong for people to be genetically modifying animals just so they could get more money. New Zealand shouldn't modify animals because the animals have lives, and they're only doing this so that they could have more sales. It's wrong for people to be modifying animals because they could die easily. Even though having more and better animals could feed more people, it's wrong to genetically modify animals.
"Farmers, Exporters Warn against GM Animals." GMWatch. 3 Mar. 2010. Web. 17 May 2010. http://gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11997-farmers-exporters-warn-GM-animals.
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