Hi all, GeneWatch UK has just released a new report on the many proposed uses and dangers of using genetically engineered organisms to produce biofuels. Perhaps the most alarming section of the report is on the possibility of genetically modified micro-organisms being developed to be particularly aggressive at breaking down the crucial protective cellulose skeletal structure in plants. The report notes that these aggressive traits would be very useful to naturally occurring plant disease microbes, and it is quite possible that those aggressive cellulose decaying traits could be transfered to such wild microbes and therefore trigger extensive and more rapid plant die-offs. If such modified organisms were then to spread extensively in the wild planet-wide, they could trigger a mass rapid collapse in plant species. Such a mass die-off would vastly increase CO2 in the atmosphere, and conceivably could even result in a total collapse of virtually all life on the planet due to a catastrophic meltdown in the survival of plants. To read a four page summary of the report go to: http://www.genewatch.org/uploads/f03c6d66a9b354535738483c1c3d49e4/Biofuels_b... To look over the full 72 page report go to: http://www.genewatch.org/uploads/f03c6d66a9b354535738483c1c3d49e4/Genewatch_... peace Eric -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara