From: Bill Owen [aspirit@pacbell.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 12:50 AM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

Please don't allow genetically engineered food to be produced or sold.  It
has not been proven to be life supporting.  There is no evidence it will be
beneficial to human consumption.  Don't let the food engineers tamper with
the natural balance of nutrients available in food.  We don't know what this
engineered food will do when we eat it.  Will there be long term effects?
Will it be beneficial to our health?  I don't see how changing our food will
be better than the way nature provides it.  I live in an area where there is
massive spraying of crops.  The FDA approves these chemicals but the
spraying has poluted the air to a point that the people living here are all
developing severe allergy problems.  When these same people leave the area
the allergies go away.  When they return the allergies return.  Its like
turning on a light switch.  It works every time.  Can we really predict what
this genetically engineered food will do to us in a short term or long term
of time?  NO  Don't let big business control or influence your decision.