"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message after me...

But does what we have now work? I keep seeing Sweetcorn used as a GM
trial
crop when it is wind pollinated and in my book should never be allowed
to
go
to trial for the very reason that it's pollen is outside the control
of
those doing the trial and is able to contaminate crops many miles
away.
To
think my Sweetcorn may be GM contaminated (with what genes?) is
appalling
to
me.
Is Sweetcorn modified with the genes of a frog still sweetcorn? Or is
it
frogcorn? :-)

Many of the genes in a frog are in you and the non GM sweetcorn anyway.
If there is a gene in you which is also in sweetcorn (there are), does
that
make you sweetcorn?


No because all the genes in me are supposed to be there no matter what
else
they are in, whereas, if you insert a gene that is specific to another
species that can then be passed on to it's new hosts progeny is it still
the
same thing or is it something new, a new species?
If it is a "new" species then it cannot be called what the original was
called i.e. GM Soya should not be called Soya at all but needs another
name
both scientifically and generally.

I think that the definition of a species runs along the lines that any set
of all those living objects which can breed with one another constitute a
species.
(Yes, I know there are occasional cases of interspecific breeding. I too
don't understand that).

Franz