Plant-Made Medicines

( GM Crops )

Scott Deeter was Ventria Bioscience , he had developed an innovative process to produce pharmaceutical proteins in the seeds of genetically modified rice .

The purpose is to lessen the severity of childhood diarrhea , dehydration and malnutrition from diarrhea , support proteins for body , insect resistance , herbicide tolerance .

The proteins found were lactoferrin and lysozyme , two compound found in human breast milk .

Breast feed babies suffered less from diarrhea than did bottle-fed babies . It can be the treatment for tourists or military personnel in flammatory bowel disease .

His actions suffered from opposition of environmentalists , food safety activists , consumer advotes , rice farmers , the California Secretary of Agriculture .

Problems facing Scott Deeter and Ventria :

Rice with human DNA GM Rice

Rice with human DNA Plant-Based Protein Biomanufacturing

A lot of stakeholders agreed that GM Crops will pose a threat to agriculture and even export market ( economics ) .

These groups include : Rice farmers . Consumers . ( In Japan ) . Customer advocates . Environmentalists . The California Secretary of Agriculture . The Public .

Groups Had A Stake In Ventria’s Actions :

Strong resistance to GM Foods Farmers hated GM Foods

1. Rice farmers : _ Presence of genetically modified rice in California posed a serious threat to the state’s export market .2 . Consumers : _ In Japan , California , other major export rice markets showed strong resistance to GM crops . They may boycott California rice products . 3 . Rice wholesalers and retailers in Japan : _ GM crops will evoke a distrust among consumers about California’s rice .

Relevant stakeholders’ interest and power :

4 . Consumers advocates : _ Produced a detailed report claiming their

concerns about GM crops : Insects brings contaminated seeds to other

places . Harvesting equipment can carry

unharvested seeds and be amid with the following year’s crops .

Cross-pollination at considerable ( by wind or by insects ) .

Dispersal of contamination .

Cross-pollination Waterfowl

_ Ventria’s protocol did not offer sufficient protection against contamination :

_ The lack of detailed to prevent birds , floods , cross-pollination from dispersal the GM Crops .

_ Our body itself has an immune . It paradoxically to create GM Crops that can poses a danger pathogen to human body by exarcebating gonorrhea and meningitis ( if they have ) , ulcer , stomach cancer , food allergy , resistance ( prevention ) to digestion .

_ Proteins generated by inserting human genes to plants was different from their counterparts .

Ventria’s rice could crossbred with existing weed species .

Rats with tumor and cancer cells