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Greed driving plant science
Oz wrote: writes Oz wrote: writes ... They thought the same in USA. The GM corn ended up in México. Corn can travel across continents, and does so regularly. You may not have noticed, but there is something called 'the atlantic' between europe and mexico whilst there is nothing but a bit of barbed wire between the US and mexico. Corn can travel in ships across the Atlantic, the Pacific or the Indian Ocean. 1) Not seed corn. That would be restricted. 2) Please inform me of the last time europe shipped maize to the americas? milling is done wherever is cheaper or convenient. I am not connected to the cargo databases to know when was the last time that europe shipped maize anywhere. But if europe had a load of rotten maize somewhere in europe, I bet it ended up somewhere in the third world. Further GM corn was being grown in mexico, so little need to 'travel This corn was exported legally from the USA to Mexico. Was supposed to be milled but ended up in mexican markets. The scientific american article said it was commercial seed from some distance away (about 10km IIRC). across continents'. IIRC in the quoted work it merely had to travel a few tens of km. What it does show, though, is that genes from modern cultivars of maize will affect 'legacy' maize, and presumably has been doing so for many decades. Any pig virus genes found naturally in teocinte? Any pig virus genes in commercial cultivars? Would teosinte care? Probably not. Would the mexican farmers care? Probably yes. What about jews and muslim people? would they care if there are pig genes in their bread? would you care if grampa's genes where in your pigs? Have we been dealing with this problems before? It's been dealing with new genes for millennia. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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