Swine Flu Genes To Be Inserted In Corn, Making Vaccine Foods For Hogs & Humans

Posted by in Environment on 06 1st, 2009 | no responses

Pig tail curl. Image credit: MatronOfHusbandry blog , “You got a good scald on that.” Iowa State University researchers are reported to be planning experimental insertion of ’swine flu vaccines’ into the genetic makeup of corn. The idea is to allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination ” simply by eating corn or corn products .”

So many questions come to mind about potential unintended consequences. It would be interesting to see whatever ethics or social responsibility evaluations of the proposed work may have been sent to the school’s

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Swine Flu Genes To Be Inserted In Corn, Making Vaccine Foods For Hogs & Humans



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