4.25.2005

Soylent Green is people! And so is some genetically modified rice. According to The Independent, Japanese researchers have inserted genes from the human liver into GM rice "to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals." Scientists at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in Tsukuba say that the process makes rice immune to 13 different herbicides, but opponents say the human-derived food will flounder in the marketplace because it'll smack of cannibalism.

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