> The results of this study are neither surprising nor alarming according
> to Monsanto.

Everything is as expected, except for this:

"There were also two instances of multiple transgenes in single 
individuals," said one of the study's coauthors Cynthia Sagers, University 
of Arkansas. "Varieties with multiple transgenic traits have not yet been 
released commercially, so this finding suggests that feral populations are 
reproducing and have become established outside of cultivation.

This suggests to me that crop plants are interbreeding with wild plants and 
that novel genes introduced into crops are escaping into the wild and 
showing up in non-crop plants.  This has very broad implications.

At any rate the genie is long since out of the bottle.  If this is the worst 
side-effect we see from gene tinkering, we will be lucky. 

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