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Paying to find non-GE wild corn?
"Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... In sci.med.nutrition Jim Webster wrote: "Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... In sci.med.nutrition Jim Webster wrote: "Brian Sandle" wrote in message ... Organims including humans have learned to coexist. Now we have to learn new lessons very fast. Lettuce can take up E coli from soil and have it reside in the edible portion. That E coli can have multiple drug resistance, because of current practices. Bacteria can exchange DNA within human cells, protected from antibiotics, too. so what what has this got to do with the childish anthropomorphism of nature. It makes as much sense as saying that Gravity has a sense of humour. Not anthropomorphism, ecology of genes. The chief of the University of Canterbury Plant and Microbial Sciences Department runs the New Zealand Gene Ecology organisation. (Jack Heinemann) (do google search in www.canterbury.ac.nz) no, what has it got to do with your anthropomorphic statement You mean my statement: " Organims including humans have learned to coexist."? No because the sorts of mutations which nature has learnt to allow to multiply are ones beneficial to itself. The `junk' genes which can later help the plant relate to stress are tested over the thousands of years. Nature has learnt to keep a strict order in the genome That is what I was trying to convey. It is subtle since if you kill all of your hosts you die, too. There must be some of that knowledge in the genome, too. no, it is purely a matter of categorisation on our part. Diseases kill their hosts, parasites don't necessarily. It is our labelling, not anything the organism is doing Because bacteria can exchange genes to their advantage in the protected environment of a human cell it is necessary to take more care with drug resistance genes. We should not be feeding drug resistance genes to people en masse, not checking up with control groups if it is triggering anything. Do bacteria have a special licence from Nature so they can do their own thing and not need to obey Natures instructions about strict order in the genome? Where do you apply for this licence? I presume you look up your memory bank to remind yourself how to keep alive. Do not kill every last host. If there is stress start swopping genes faster. what memory bank? Where is there any evidence of this. I think you are getting carried away with the classifications again. If you run out of hosts you just find more Jim Webster |
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