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say non to GM - Join the Tractors & Trolley Parade - Monday 13th October 2003 London
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bigboard wrote: Franz Heymann wrote: [Snip] I don't know why you are shy of indicating who you are, but what I do know is that Mother Nature has been modifying the genes of all living objects since the beginning of life, and Homo sapiens has been doing the same at a vastly increased rate for the past three thousand years or so. Franz Bully for you. What has that got to do with it? What it means is that if you think eating GM might be bad for you then stay away from all conventional crop varieties since we don't know what genetic changes happened to yield the required characters, unlike GM. Also don't eat cauliflower, Brussel sprouts or broccoli, all mutant cabbages. Who knows what genetic sequences caused these? some may have happened because, gasp!, a virus went haywire and disrupted some vital genes. Oh and also stay away from organge carrots, nature meant carrots to be green. GM is simply the application of extremely selective, controlled genetic change in place of non selective, uncontrolled genetic change which characterises conventional crop breeding. We could argue about dubious benefits for some particular applications of the technology, but that does not mean all uses of the technology are bad. Peter -- Peter Ashby School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Scotland To assume that I speak for the University of Dundee is to be deluded. Reverse the Spam and remove to email me. |
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