Down on the Pharm in the UK - from The Guardian, April 30 2007

Scientists are growing GM tobacco engineered to contain an anti-HIV drug in a laboratory based at a London hospital. The Guardian article that tells the story claims that things are much more relaxed when it comes to pharma crops in North America and quotes Ventria's pharma rice in Kansas as an example. It doesn't mention that Ventria was chased out of California and even out of Monsanto's home state of Missouri when it tried to cultivate pharma rice there. It also wrongly claims that some diabetics "object to" GM insulin as if it were an ideological issue, whereas in fact, their refusal of GM insulin has  more to do with its sometimes life-threatening side effects. http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=7810