Jennifer,
During my trawls of the www I came across the following blog which purports to describe a future where Denmark has transformed its agriculture and land use in through large scale adaptation of molecular pharming .
The blog is at
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2006/09/pharmland.html
and if you scroll down to the bottom, you’ll see
“For more on this wondrously pragmatic utopia, view the presentation
slideshow” and the slideshow link,
http://www.nord-web.dk/pharmland_2.htm
Takes you to a new website where you can view a “documentary” movie
online presented by a fictitious Minister of Health and Agriculture at
http://www.nord-web.dk/pharmland_movie.htm
This future scenario is not that outlandish since Denmark has got a large biotech industry (Novo Nordisk is the major producer of recombinant insulin) and the Danish Government has recently adopted coexistence laws which will allow for growing GM and non-GM side by side.
Interesting view of a possible future for Denmark and possibly Tasmania which is growing pharmaceutical crops already (poppies) and are exempting poppies from its GM Crops ban.
Roger
Roger Kalla, PhD
Director Korn Technologies
www.korntechnologies.com
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.