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| Millions of taxpayer dollars wasted on cloned 'Frankencow' that produces GM milk nobody will ever drink
(NaturalNews) It might look like normal milk, but the milky white
substance produced by "Daisy," the infamous cloned cow developed by New
Zealand-based AgResearch using $50 million taken directly from
taxpayers, is actually genetically-modified (GM), imitation milk geared
towards people with milk allergies. But because nobody will likely ever
be willing to drink the putrid, genetic mess, the admittedly failed
project is doomed to go down in history as one of the biggest misuses of
taxpayer dollars in New Zealand's history.
In case you are
unfamiliar with the situation, AgResearch has been awarded tens of
millions of dollars from the public coffers over the years to develop
various cloned and GM animals. Many of the company's projects have
failed miserably thus far, including a 13-year animal cloning research project
that had to be abandoned after it was discovered that most of the
modified animals died or went through incredible pain and suffering at
the hands of their genetic manipulators.
Today, AgResearch has
been investing a significant amount of other people's money into Daisy, a
cloned cow that produces fake milk artificially low in
beta-lactoglobulin (BLG), and artificially high in the allergen casein.
The original goal of the project was to formulate a novel variety of
milk that people with certain milk allergies could safely drink, but
that we pointed out would actually make milk allergies worse.
Virtually nobody would willingly drink cloned, GM milk if properly labeled
But
now that it is clear the Daisy project was a complete failure -- a 2011
European Commission poll found that public support for cloned food
products is about 18 percent at best -- many are questioning the New
Zealand government's reckless decision to pump tens of millions of taxpayer dollars into AgResearch projects, all of which are completely unnecessary and only further obstruct the natural order.
According to Stuff.co.nz, the Sustainability Council of New Zealand has already dubbed the Daisy project
"a bridge to nowhere," adding that AgResearch has "consumed $50 million
of taxpayer funds on projects that after 13 years, had yet to deliver a
single commercial product." Strikingly similar to the legacy of failed
green energy companies sponsored by the Obama administration using
taxpayer dollars, AgResearch's genetic escapades have done absolutely
nothing to promote the public good.
"Trying to use low-allergen milk
to win the public over is quite mischievous," said Steffan Browning, a
GM spokesman and Green Party list MP, about AgResearch's manipulative
tactics to try to gain public support for their failed and potentially
dangerous products. "I went to their [biotech industry] conference in
Rotorua and they were doing workshops around how you get trust into
communities that are resistant to genetic engineering. I found that
quite disturbing."
Source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/037911_Frankencow_GM_milk_taxpayer_dollars.html
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