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Old 02-10-2003, 07:03 PM
 
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Default A Danger to the World's Food: Genetic Engineering and the EconomicInterests of the Life Science

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:55:06 +0100, "Bob Hobden"
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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
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Is Sweetcorn modified with the genes of a frog still sweetcorn? Or is

it
frogcorn? :-)

Prick. AT least we know whats inside your head anyway.
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ridiculously huge SIG snipped

LOL, you're the prick, this person was on your side! Now we know whats in
your head..nothing...


I would never and could never be on Pete's side,


pete who?

according to all that know
me I'm sane :-)


Liar, some of us still you're a innane prick!

I don't just want all GM banned, full stop, like Pete the AR Troll, even
though it's being done for financial gain for the firms involved not for the
good of the world. Indeed, GM doing any good for the world has yet to be
proved.
I would like a lot more environmental research on the lasting effects of
growing these crops in the way they are intended to be grown (i.e. high use
of Roundup in some cases) and on the long term effects on the wild
population of flora and fauna. If it takes 10, 20, or even 50 more years to
be certain, so what.
For example when they allowed the GM Parsley to flower and then cross with
the wild parsley in France what happened? Have we now got a "super weed"
that herbicides can't kill? Or is the wild plant now resistant to it's usual
caterpillars, so will that specific species of butterfly/moth now die out?
etc, etc.
I've said it before, if they wish to use GM now it must be with plants that
cannot flower, are genetically engineered not to flower, or we could be
heading down a very slippery path where all our crops, indeed, a lot of wild
flora, are contaminated with genes that should not be there and it will be
too late to reverse the process.


Mind you, a prick that has the ability to learn, you'll do.


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The facts expressed here belong to everybody,
the opinions to me.
The distinction is yours to draw...

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I'm a horny devil when riled.


pete who?

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