On 19 Jul 2003 11:07:15 GMT, Brian Sandle
wrote:

Jim Webster wrote:

"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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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. The `junk' genes which can later
help the plant relate to stress are tested over the thousands of years.
Nature has learnt to keep a strict order in the genome.

what total rubbish

where to you apply to 'nature' for a licence, where does 'nature' test and
'allow' these genes.

Nature is not a person for christsake!

Jim Webster

Organims including humans have learned to coexist.

Humans have difficulty coexisting with humans.

Most other creatures eat each other in one form or other.

Now we have to learn new lessons very fast.

What would they be?

Lettuce can take up E coli from soil and have it reside in the
edible portion. That E coli can have multiple drug resistance,
because of current practices.

So? Tell us something new. Every animal's gut is swarming with E coli.
It is everywhere. Only a few strains are pathogenic, and to actually
infect us, a huge number of organisms must be ingested.

Bacteria can exchange DNA within human cells, protected from
antibiotics, too.

Which bacteria are these?

Amongst the myriad mutations of these organisms with a generation life
of 20 minutes, a few antibiotic resistances here and there, while a
worry at the moment, are neither here nor there in the scheme of
things.