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"Snooze" wrote in message . .. "John Thomas" wrote in message ... Whenever I talk with the hysterical people this article is lampooing, my standard line is... All varieties of food crops are genetically modified. Just what the heck do you think 'plant breeding' is, anyway? At least the people doing it have a better idea of exactly what happened, unlike pre-recombninant methods. I don't think most people have a problem with the use of genetic modification if they used dna already present in that particular species genome. That's the just producing a hybrid with hopefully less trial and error. However I do have a problem with using dna from an entirely different species to produce something that wasn't naturally possible. For example tomatoes have been made frost resistant by splicing in a gene from a flounder that makes some sort of "antifreeze". Other things that concern me, is plants like maize/corn have been modified to the point where some variations are inedible by humans and others are outright toxic for human consumption. With the thousands of tons of corn produced every year around the world, it's not difficult for containers to get swapped and turn pharmaceutical corn into corn syrup. Even with buffer zones, accidents are going to happen. How can accidents be a bad thing as long as money is made? |
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