include elimination of food deterioration and waste, 
improved distribution of current food supplies, improved 
agricultural education and population stabilization. 
C. Alternative methods of increasing the supply of 
insulin include the increased production of swine to 
provide a greater volume of swine pancreas for the manu- 
facture of insulin, further research into the protein 
synthesis of insulin or its production using tissue culture 
methods. Alternative therapies for treating diseases such 
as diabetes may also be developed. 
D. Alternative methods of seeking cures for cancer 
include the identification and removal of carcinogens from 
the environment and research using other techniques. 
13. Just as there are hypothetical results which could 
come from recombinant DNA research, there are also risks and 
potential hazards. For example, it is possible to stitch in 
genes which are toxigenic or pathogenic or which confer drug 
resistance . 
A. The risk and potential hazard of most immediate 
concern is the use of organisms in recombinant DMA research 
which are ubiquitous and/or dangerous to humans, plants or 
animals. E. coli , which is discussed in Paragraph 10 
above, could cause serious health problems if a dangerous 
gene were implanted and the organism escaped the laboratory 
and survived or passed along the dangerous genetic component. 
The hazards of working with other organisms can be similar 
and each warrants individual experimental examination in 
order to assess the hazards. The dangers extend from 
laboratory workers to the public at large, to plant and 
animal species, to the equilibrium of the ecospherc as a 
whole. 
D. Hocombinant DMA research creates the risk of theft 
of dangerous new organisms or sabotage by terrorists, 
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