In message >, Oz
> writes

>Oh, its quite clear. Inserting a single known gene with a precise action
>means you know what the effect will be (pretty much),

Does that not depend where it's inserted ? How much control over that
do you have these days ?


> whilst inserting a
>whole bunch of genes, most of which do unknown things, clearly meas you
>don;t know what the result will be.

But at least you know they are native to the species, so you'll probably
have encountered their effects in a similar context before.


> In animal trials you can't usually feed high levels of a
>single food for a lifetime without your stock dying or showing bad
>effects. This sort of thing is well known in farming, but appears
>unknown elsewhere.

Think most nutritionists would take issue with you there !


Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore