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26-04-2003, 12:25 PM

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Oz wrote:

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Corn can travel in ships across the Atlantic, the Pacific or the Indian
Ocean.

1) Not seed corn. That would be restricted.
2) Please inform me of the last time europe shipped maize to the
americas?

milling is done wherever is cheaper or convenient.

Indeed.

I am not connected to the cargo databases to know when was the last time
that europe shipped maize anywhere. But if europe had a load of rotten
maize somewhere in europe, I bet it ended up somewhere in the third world.

Just take a peek at maize prices and exports from the EC.
It doesn't happen.

Any pig virus genes in commercial cultivars?
Would teosinte care? Probably not.

Would the mexican farmers care? Probably yes.

Probably not. They don't farm teosinte.

What about jews and muslim people? would they care if there are pig genes
in their bread?

You said a pig virus. That's not pig.
In any case probably 95%+ of human genes are pig genes anyway.
They would have to define which genes made a pig a pig and which didn't.
In any case, theologically speaking, it's very arguable if pig genes in
maize makes that maize into a pig. Doubtless there are already genes in
maize that are found in pigs already.

would you care if grampa's genes where in your pigs?

No. Why should I?
I wouldn't care if some of my genes were in a pig.
We share lots of genes with pigs anyway.

Have we been dealing with this problems before?

Probably.

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