"bigboard" wrote in message
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Franz Heymann wrote:
"bigboard" wrote in message
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Franz Heymann wrote:

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I don't know why you are shy of indicating who you are, but what I do

know

is that Mother Nature has been modifying the genes of all living
objects
since the beginning of life, and Homo sapiens has been doing the same
at

a

vastly increased rate for the past three thousand years or so.

Franz


Bully for you. What has that got to do with it?


It appears to have escaped your attention that this thread has to do
with
the genetic modification of plants.
Read before you write.

Franz

It appears your comprehension skills are non-existant. Please practice
before you write.

I suppose I'll have to spell it out for you. Natural and non-natural
evolution also produce non-desirable effects.

Yes

These effects cannot
always be predicted.

They are somewhat more predictable in the case of modifications produced by
human intervention, both in the case of breeding by selection and by direct
modification of the genome.

Genetic modification of any kind *can* be
dangerous,

Yes.
The correct procedure adopted by nature is to allow such modifications to
die out by natural selection.
The correct procedure adopted by humans is to discard such modifications at
or before the testing stage if they are deleterious.

and we should be careful before releasing any GM organisms
into the wild. *Very* careful.

Yes.
So??

Franz