I have seen a great deal of emotion and spleen vented on both sides of the GM issue. My question is: if GM vegetables require less insecticide; can produce equal nutrition at lower cost, why are they a bad thing? I can understand that if the GM variety crosses with a wild plant, the altered gene(s) can escape into the wild. That raises two questions: if the GM plant were sterile, what would be wrong with it? And if an altered gene were to escape, would that necessarily be a bad thing – evolution is constantly altering, sequestering and incorporating new genetic material in species’ gene pools. David E _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/