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On Feb 20, 12:46*pm, wrote:
Billy writes:
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011, 9:00 PM
Why Aren t G.M.O. Foods Labeled?
By MARK BITTMAN
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Seems to me, that's short sighted. *Selective breeding might be
1000s or even millions of times slower than GMO but a mutation is
a mutation. *There is no theoretical limit to what can be accomplished
with selective breeding. *It's just going to take a longer time.
You can breed salmon genes into a tomato with selective breeding?

They transfer individual genes.
I don't see why not.

Maybe you could get a tomato to produce fish oil?

Take longer indeed, salmon and tomatoes sprang from eukaryotic cells,
which evolved 1.6*2.1 billion years ago, and developed along completely
different lines (Plant Kingdom, Animal Kingdom).

Yep, but that's why GMO is so cool, we won't have to wait for a billion
years to get our fish oil tomatoes.



Aside from everything else there is the issue of pattens. Sure you can
get your omega 3 rich tomato but it will cost you. Control of the food
supply will be a police duty.

Now back to Bladerunner or was it some Heston movie.

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Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

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