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To: opentalk
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To many ignorant people, this man represents evil. But then, most people don't even know who he is.

Technological illiteracy and ignorance. I blame public education.

13 posted on 09/23/2013 9:46:35 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Mase
Not the same

Hybrid Seeds Vs GMOs

In both open-pollinated and hybrid seeds,we have always been breeding crops that were genetically able to breed,like two types of stone fruit,or two varieties of squash,or two breeds of dog. But,unlike open pollinated seed selection or hybridization, GMO technology allows us to “play God” in a way that even Mother Nature hasn’t dared.

Today,with sophisticated and very expensive lab techniques (like retroviruses and gene guns),we can now manipulate and combine the DNA of species that could never ,ever breed in nature—like fish and tomatoes,Brazil nuts and soybeans,or bacteria and corn.

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regardless, the farmer's crop was rejected for export sale because of the presence of GMO

18 posted on 09/23/2013 10:32:47 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: Mase

You mean my hero, Norman Borlaug. I just heard a guy, a ‘scientist’, talking about overpopulation and how we will be going hungry soon. I laughed and thought of Julian Simon and Norman Borlaug. Is it true that wheat crops are the highest bushel/acre ever?


21 posted on 09/27/2013 9:51:43 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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