From: sjohnson@gwi.net
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 12:08 PM
To: fdadockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: Docket 00N-1396 & Docket 00D-1598

To whom it may concern: 
 
Experience alone, even were rational consideration ignored, tells us   
that the effects, immediate and long-range, of genetically engineered   
species, food and non-food, are much more subtle and complex than   
the 'science' of the GE proponents suggests or even admits. 
 
We are at a critical time, a time at which the very genetic structure of   
many domesticated and, by unpreventable spread of genetic material,   
wild species is threatened with uncontrolled, unpredictable, and very   
poorly understood change.  To alter the genetic constitutution of   
species, essentially irrevocably, with little or no understanding or even   
consideration of the long-term and widespread effects this will have is   
insanely irresponsible.   
 
The principle driving force in the headlong adoption of such policies as   
those incorporated in the proposed rules is clearly the profit of those   
producing and marketing the altered species; the impact on the   
planetary ecosystem, and on human well-being as well, is very poorly   
known and will certainly be concealed rather than revealed by these   
proposed rules. 
 
I urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to withdraw these rules.    
They serve the interests of corporate persons but not natural persons;   
profits, not people. 


Stanley L. Johnson
497 Ridge Road
Bowdoinham, ME 04008-5203
USA

sjohnson@gwi.net

207-666-3842