Downright scary...

I found this gem on the veganporn website (all worksafe--the only thing that's close to pr0n on that site is the name): essentially, the government is incredibly secretive about the approval process for growing plants with drugs engineered into them. Wired news story here.

An excerpt from the wired story:

"...much of the information about the crops is kept secret, such as where they're located, how big the plot of land is, what pharmaceutical it will contain and the drug's potential hazards."

This is not a good idea, especially from a cross-contamination standpoint. What happened to the time I could sit & eat a plain ol' tomato, instead of a tofishmato, vaccine-tomato, or tomacco.

I really hope they're growing this shit in a specially designed greenhouse, planted in pots and not the earth, with a negative pressure gradient to prevent pollen from escaping. For some reason, I doubt this is the case... I may sound overly cautious here, but it's warranted, since this is unprecedented, and nobody knows what the real risks are.