Jim Webster wrote:

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Spain does not export oil to America. Today it's coasts are covered
with oil.
Who would have thought!
I know about shuch things as continents but corn travels in ships.


and how well does maize survive immersion in salt water?

think a little


The original point was that corn can travel over oceans with no problem,
does so regularly. Pollen viability is a small problem compared to
whole shipments of grain from USA to Africa or USA to SouthAmerica.
(Mexican germplasm of maize has already been contaminated with GMO's,
and it was not a cloud of pollen but a shipment of USA 'AID'.
Other sources of germplasm contamination include regular exchanges
between plant breeding programs around the world.
Accidents happen. They happen regularly. GMO's containing
pharmaceutical have been mixed with grain destined for human consumption.
This was reported because of luck. Other accidents have probably not
been reported. Other large scale experiments with humans like those of
mad cow disease in England where denied for years until people started
to suspect something wrong. Before people just died from an unknown disease.
Some of you where arguing that the problem of GMO's are a question of doing
good control and regulation. Well, tell that to the spaniards and their
oiled coasts or tell that to the English and their mad cows, pigs and sheep.
Some problems are much cheaper and easier to fix at the source, not down the
line. That is a basic science and engineering principle.
Now, go ahead take your own advise. Think a little.