[Imc-web] Pig feature

[Danielle Chynoweth]

I suggest you post this from Randi Zimmerman of Free Speech Radio News
with a link to the AP story and other mainstream stories.


The Food and Drug Administration is recalling genetically altered piglets
that were inadvertently released into U.S. food supply.  As many as 386
piglets were sold to a livestock broker by the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign campus.  Researchers at the university engineered the
animals with one cow gene intended to increase milk production; and another
synthetic gene so the piglets could better digest the milk.  University
researchers say they only released the piglets that came up clear for the
genes eight times.  At a quickly organized press conference yesterday, the
FDA chief said the piglets do not pose a threat the consumers.  But added
the university should have gotten direct approval before they sent the pigs
to the market.