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To: Palter; All

Newsflash: GM isn’t new or dangerous. Man has been doing it for thousands of years.

Perhaps you’ve heard of Agriculture? Farming?


35 posted on 08/09/2010 9:44:10 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: PeaceBeWithYou; Chet 99
Man has been doing it for thousands of years.

There you go, being rational again.

We still have people complaining about domesticating wolves and modifying them. Right here on this board. There are downsides and upsides. But if they really become a problem, they will be like the dodo. Humans are good at that. Really, really good. Industrial good.

/johnny

39 posted on 08/09/2010 9:50:15 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

Thaks, I have. I’m only talking about Transgenic modification, as the main area of interest.

Particular, combining human DNA with plants, and other such modifications, creating ‘new’ species of fauna.


41 posted on 08/09/2010 9:55:33 PM PDT by Palter (Kilroy was here.)
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

Well, there’s a real difference between breeding and the genetic engineering that Monsanto and others are doing.

I think it’s called gene splicing and it’s completely unnnatural. And that’s what Monsanto has done.

Here’s “The Planet vs Monsanto”
Monsanto’s other main line of products is corn and cotton seeds containing genes for pest-killing toxins produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt. Organic farmers have been spraying these natural pesticides on their crops for decades. Monsanto’s technology puts the stuff right into the plant.


47 posted on 08/09/2010 10:25:23 PM PDT by truthfreedom
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