On 19 Jul 2003 04:34:37 GMT, Brian Sandle
wrote:

In sci.med.nutrition Moosh:] wrote: On 19 Jul
2003 04:05:43 GMT, Brian Sandle wrote:


And if you don't want to catch an illness, keep away from the source,if
you know what it is.

How far away is labelling of GM ingredientsin corn chips, herrings in
tomato sauce, chocolate &c &c?

Logically, as far away as labelling that a random mutation happened in
the corn field.

No because the sorts of mutations which nature has learnt to allow to
multiply are ones beneficial to itself.

Well of course. The lethal mutations die out

The `junk' genes which can later
help the plant relate to stress are tested over the thousands of years.

If they last that long. I would guess that every combination and
permutation has been "tried" over the millions of years.

Nature has learnt to keep a strict order in the genome.

Rubbish. There is no control over this other than "what works persists
and what doesn't dies out". It's all chemistry.

The GM process
defeats that.

Again, rubbish. If a man-made mutation (and man has been artificially
mutating things for a long time) works to the advantage (or no effect)
on the organism it will survive. If it does harm to the organism, it
will die out.

Many people are saying that drug resistance markers should
have ceased being used, or never started.

The natural mutations of bacteria are breeding drug resistance every
moment of every day. That's life.