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To: exDemMom
Gee, what a list of hooey .... every food produced by agriculture is GMO. No exceptions. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors invented the practice of modifying plants and animals to make them better food sources.

Hooey just be in the eye of the beholder.

Seems our ancestors modified plants by grafting, by cross pollination, by selection of desired traits/characteristics, by importing stronger plants (weather tolerant, moisture/fertilizer requirements). Surely you're not suggesting our ancestors delved in molecular mutation by gene splicing fish scales unto tomato genes to enable fruit to be more resistant to bruising.

Other nations need our food products...yet the European Union, various Asian countries refuse GMO products. I may be mistaken, but some African nations also.

101 posted on 07/16/2014 4:09:29 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President (LIP) goes golfing)
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Our ancestors did the equivalent of standing back from a wall and randomly throwing spatters of different colors of paint at it, hoping that within the spatters, a meaningful shape would appear.

Nowadays, we analyze the paint on the wall and change one element to improve on the shape. Then we test to make sure the shape really is an improvement over the previous shape. Our targeted methods are extremely unlikely to have the random effects of previous methods. We have the ability to change one gene at a time—an ability our ancestors never had—meaning that they were stuck with randomly changing *thousands* of genes at a time.

Besides the random mixing of genes our ancestors did with crossing various plants, plant breeders last century used radiation to induce random mutations (by damaging the DNA). That means they were using radiation to randomly make genes that never before existed. The more useful mutations were preserved, and are still used in agriculture today. Do you refuse to eat plants that were developed as a result of radiative mutation?

As I already pointed out, if you want to eat food that is NOT genetically modified, you have to go out and harvest wild plants and animals yourself. You can’t find genetically unmodified food on the shelves of your local store (or even growing in your garden).


103 posted on 07/16/2014 4:40:42 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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