From: JOHN & DARLENE GROVE [skippy@cybernet1.com]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 10:59 PM
To: fdadocket@oc.fda.gov
Cc: agsec@usda.gov
Subject: Genetically engineered food.

To:  Director, USDA
From:  Darlene and John Grove, Box 77, Stevensville, MT  59870

We are unalterably opposed to genetically engineered food, plants or etc.
We live in an agricultural community where there is much discussion about
this process, so we have attempted to obtain information and understand it.
From that research, we have found that this process should be shelved.

It has not been proven that these organisms or processes are not harmful to
humans, plants and animals.  There is not enough public monies to do the
research necessary to protect the public, and we cannot trust the
corporations to do that and protect our land, water, food chain, wild
animals or whatever.  These genetically engineered crops should not be
allowed out of the laboratory, into the market and the wild.

In addition, they should be labeled and the biotechnology corporations that
manufacture them must be held responsible for any harm they have caused or
will in the future.

We cannot allow industry to force genetically engineered products into the
market and our environment without knowing what will happen when these
altered organisms interact with the natural or wild.  "Science only measures
those aspects of reality we can control, leaving out all those aspects of
reality that are beyond our ability to control.

Please give my concerns and those of my family your utmost consideration.

Thank you.