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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.

Soylent Green?
And book control the duty of the fire dept.
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 16 April 1953
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