The bottom line is very simple here folks; commodities have little value. In order to create something that can be sold for a much larger profit, it's necessary to be patentable. Rice is a commodity. GM rice is a patentable product. The studies are designed to prove the value of this product, and would never be published if they couldn't somehow massage the data (including discarding the many data points which do not support their contention) to show that their frankenstein products are god's gift. Of course they're not god's gift at all; god's gift would be the already-perfect, natural products, consumable just as they are. Nature is perfect, and we will never improve on it. And it's naive to believe that this is actually anyone's intention. The intention, as suggested above, is simply to make more money. There are many excellent books on the dangers of GM products, including Jeffrey Smith's excellent book, Seeds of Deception. There are also some excellent books that further explain the deceptive nature of "scientific studies." Most of them are paid for by commercial industry, either directly, or indirectly by funding the schools that do the research, effectively insuring that the school publishes research beneficial to their supporters. It's very hard for most schools to turn down that $20 million grant, and the result is that much of the "science" that is published is nonsense. I'm tied up teaching for the next two days, so probably won't be able to respond. Loren Lockman Director, Tanglewood Wellness Center www.TanglewoodWellnessCenter.com